The other issue I had with this story was the ending. While not being completely out of the blue it felt a bit unsatisfying.

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I like the novel as a police procedural as I enjoy the gradual triangulation of facts and theories into a cohesive case and I think the author does a good job of it. I’m not so keen on Lena Lorenzen whom I find rather dreary. There is no doubt that she is a smart, intuitive investigator with great people skills but her love life which she examines ad nauseum is a bore. Talk to him and thrash it out. The case turns out to be a complex one with enquiries leading them in new directions and further questioning ensues. It appears that Maria Logener was not who everyone thought she was...but of course the investigation can't move forward without the victimology. Soon witnesses become persons of interest - teachers, friends, students - as the last days of Maria's life is slowly revealed.This is a complex case, as events turn the inquiries into new directions, and more people get probed. The victim herself, Maria, turns out not to be who everyone thought she was, and the investigation can’t go anywhere without learning to know the victim. None of the local residents, even the girl's parents, want to cooperate with the Detective. The cult, devoutly religious islanders, are definitly hiding something, but what could it be? Has it something to do with the murder? However, when the girl is found dead, Lorenzen takes charge of the investigation, and things start to change. The problems brought on by such a strict religious community are better understood by DS Johann Grasmann who was raised in a similar strict catholic village. He connects a bit too well to the victim’s sister but is honest enough to admit this when Lena confronts him about it. He’s happy that he can work again with her and is a good, clever policeman and a skilled researcher. His hunches may not always be right but he usually knows when someone isn’t telling the whole truth.

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Classic Serial: On the Beach (November 2008), BBC Radio 4 broadcast a full-cast audio dramatization in two-hour-long episodes, as part of their Classic Serial strand. [16] The 2000 film ends with a quote from Walt Whitman's poem "On the Beach at Night", describing how a father comforts his small daughter who is frightened as an approaching cloud bank blots out the evening stars one by one. [7] Although Whitman's poem resembles the plot of Shute's novel, the book does not reference it, as it does Eliot's poem.Death on the Beach is a second book by German author Anna Johannsen in her Island Mystery series featuring detective Lena Lorenzen. It has been masterfully translated into the Queen’s English by Jozef Van Der Voort, whose words flow seamlessly. The reason, I didn’t make this a 4 🌟, is simply that I felt the end was rushed. The body of the book was excellent but I felt like when it came to exposing the killer, the author was ready to hang up her hat. I needed a bit more at the end. That taaaa-daaaa moment you remember about the book weeks later. The Australian government provides citizens with free suicide pills and injections so they can avoid prolonged suffering from radiation poisoning. Periodic reports show the steady southward progression of the deadly radiation. As communications are lost with a city, it is referred to as being "out."