"After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they're deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking a chance on an adventure far from the reach of iPhones and Instagram. But as soon as they set foot on the island, which is run by a tightly knit clan of locals, everything feels wrong. Then a shocking accident propels the Baxters from an unsettling situation into an absolute nightmare"--
Biografie
Adrian McKinty, geboren 1968, wuchs in Carrickfergus in der Nähe von Belfast auf. An der Oxford University studierte er Philosophie, dann übersiedelte er nach New York. Sechs Jahre lebte und arbeitete er in Harlem, u. a. als Wachmann, Vertreter, Rugbytrainer, Buchhändler und Postbote. 2001 zog er nach Denver, seit 2008 wohnt er mit seiner Familie in Melbourne.
