THE SUN IS GOD - Adrian McKinty

Based on real events, bestselling and award-winning crime writer Adrian  McKinty returns with a story of murder set in the South Pacific against a backdrop of the Boer War. It is 1906 and Will Prior is in self-imposed exile on a remote South Pacific island,  working a small, and  failing, plantation. He should never have told anyone about  his previous existence as a military foot  policeman in the Boer War, but a man needs friends, even if they are as stuffy and, well, German, as Hauptmann Kessler, the local government representative. So it is that Kessler approaches Will one hot afternoon, with a request for his help  with a problem on a neighbouring island, inhabited by a reclusive, cultish group of European ‘cocovores’, who believe that sun worship and eating only coconuts will  bring them eternal life. Unfortunately, one of their number has died in suspicious circumstances, and Kessler has been tasked with uncovering the real reason for his demise. Accompanied by ‘lady traveller’, Bessie Pullen-Burry, who is foisted on them by the archipelago's eccentric  owner, Will and Kessler travel to the island of Kabakon to find out what is really going on… PRAISE FOR THE SUN IS GOD ‘Based on an improbable but true story, the novel offers a fascinating twist on the traditional “locked room” mystery, as only the island's miserable few inhabitants can be considered suspects in the alleged murder...  But it's the investigation of the central mystery, with its undertones of Paradise Lost that proves most  entertaining.’ – Irish Times

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Adrian McKinty grew up in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. In 2000 he relocated to Denver, Colorado where he taught high school English and began writing fiction. His debut Dead I Well May Be was shortlisted for   the  2004 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. His first Sean Duffy novel The Cold Cold Ground won the 2013   Spinetingler Award and its sequel I Hear The Sirens In The Street was shortlisted for the 2013 Ned Kelly   Award. Adrian now lives in Melbourne with his wife and two children.

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