Sunset - Softcover

A pleasure island, a place of escape. Los Alcazares is a holiday paradise in the Canary islands, but before the luxury villas were built it was a place fantastic dreams and incredible secrets, an island in the ocean where ley lines cross and tectonic crash, a geological hot spot where you can’t trust anything – not even the earth itself. Kim escaped to her island paradise with Matthew, her lover, a man she wants to trust. Living there is Stella, her old friend, a woman never doubts herself and, it seems, gets everything she wants. But now a man has been killed on Los Alcazares and both Stella and Matthew were there when he died. That’s what they’re saying anyway; but the island is full of talk. At the beach bar where there is no beach, Kim waits for Matthew to find out, finally, who to trust and what to believe. This richly textured novel contrasts the drama of a volcanic eruption two hundred years ago with the lives of the lotus-eaters who have made a playground of the black beaches and the lava fields, but whose certainties are no more stable than the treacherous earth itself. “Told with great skill and masterful timing,” Good Housekeeping. “A complex and cleverly written book,” Image