What really happened on the Galapago Island of Floreana and was it murder? There were certainly motives galore and dodgy characters to pin it on... a doctor who wanted to set up a paradise based on Nietzschean philosophy and his willing acolyte, a German war veteran and his wife who are determined to raise a family, and "baroness" Von Wagner a slippery and evil woman sporting two lovesick rivals. While the two couples work tirelessly to make this combination of island paradise and volcanic dangerous wasteland their Eden, Von Wagner decides to establish a resort hotel which will house rich American tourists drawn to Floreana by Hancock, the captain of the cruise ship Velero lll, who publicized the island. Definitely trouble in paradise.
Abbott, author of Ghosts of Eden Park, has written a page turning, hold your breath true tale that reads like fiction but is thoroughly backed up by fact. Using unpublished documents and archival material, she drops her readers on the island to colonize Floreana with the inhabitants, and challenges them to solve the mystery and escape while they still can.
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