The sun is God
By: Adrian Mckinty
Publisher: Seventh Street Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amherst, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781616140878
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Retired military personnel; Fiction; Murder; Investigation; Historical; FICTION; Mystery & Detective; General
Description: Colonial New Guinea--1906: a small group of mostly German nudists live an extreme back-to-nature existence on the remote island of Kabakon. Eating only coconuts and bananas, they purport to worship the sun. One of their members--Max Lutzow--has recently died, allegedly from malaria. But an autopsy on his body in the nearby capital of Herbertshöhe raises suspicions about foul play. Retired British military police officer Will Prior is recruited to investigate the circumstances of Lutzow's death. At first, the eccentric group seems friendly and willing to cooperate with the investigation. They all insist that Lutzow died of malaria. Despite lack of evidence for a murder, Prior is convinced that the group is hiding something.