Annie was a beautiful young woman and was like a sister to me," one of her closest friends, Maria Jansson, remembers. There was also a lot of focus on the religious "cult" of which the dead girl's family was a member, but it felt only loosely tied to the overall story.

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In the documentary, Suzanne speaks of the Tuwichian family, who she claims are "like the Mafia in Koh Tao".And at least six young Brits have all died in suspicious circumstances on the small island of Koh Tao, leading their loved ones to label it "Death Island". I enjoyed Death on The Beach, which is an interesting police procedural with some unusual circumstances taking it out of the everyday. It was an entertaining enough police procedural but I would have liked a bit more personal growth on the main character, but hopefully we'll see some of that on book 3. On a personal level, Lena battles with her committment to Erck whilst having to deal with a former one night stand joining the team from the mainland. In the survival manual Nuclear War Survival Skills, Cresson Kearney describes the novel as "pseudoscientific" and "demoralising", arguing that it and similar works perpetuate the myth that any large-scale nuclear war would inevitably wipe out all human life.

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The investigators will frustratingly get the same hostile treatment from all other members of the flock. On holiday on the German island of Amrum Lena is sent to the neighbouring island of Föhr to help investigate the disappearance of a fourteen year old girl, Maria Logener.I realised that I had enjoyed what I had from this story but I wasn't going to get anymore from it and had to choose to leave it. The investigation is met with little information due to the religious family and community who are hesitant to open their doors for questioning.

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The only parts of the planet still habitable are Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the southern parts of South America, although they are slowly succumbing to radiation poisoning as well. Boyne and his wife found him and got hold of him through social media, and their phone conversation is played in the documentary. Throughout it all, Lena showed her tenacious character to finally reveal who committed this heinous crime. I loved reading about the different cultures of other countries, expressly small coastal village life and their close communities.Inspector Lena Lorenzen of the Kiel Police is sent to Föhr to investigate the case of a missing fourteen-year-old student, Maria Logener. And Det Supt Paul Livingstone, from Police Scotland's specialist crime division, said: "We understand how distressing this must be for family and friends," adding that Annie's death was fully investigated and there was no evidence of criminality. However, when the girl is found dead, Lorenzen takes charge of the investigation, and things start to change. Small island life on Fohr where Detective Lena Lorenzen arrives to take charge of the investigation of missing school girl Maria.

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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. I received a free copy of Death on the Beach from Netgalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. Eventhough the bodie of the girl is found with vicious wounds on the wrist, Lorenzen immediatelly thinks that I can't be suicide and Maria must have been murdered.Lena is unprepared for the uncooperative reactions from the girl's parents and neighbors until she finds out that they all belong to a religious sect that has alienated themselves from the regular townsfolk and Lena will have to dig hard to find out why all the secrecy and cold indifference to her looking for information about the girl. I would like to add that I’m impressed with the translator, who changed the German language into English. People often judge that which is different from what they know, and I hurt for the community that they felt scrutinized by virtue of their faith.