In 1891, Joe Strong moved with his wife and child to Samoa to live with Robert Louis Stevenson at Vailima, a plantation that Stevenson was carving out of the wilderness. Joe's wife was Stevenson's step-daughter. Joe and Louis had been friends for years and were close in age and temperament. Joe was a painter who had studied in Germany and was also an early photographer. Joe had been there before, and upon returning immediately resumed an affair with a native girl, a Sava dancer, whom he loved. He and all of the Stevenson clan became intimately involved with the power struggle between a rebel leader and the king who was appointed by the Germans there. And war was immanent.
In 1891, Joe Strong moved with his wife and child to Samoa to live with Robert Louis Stevenson at Vailima, a plantation that Stevenson was carving out of the wilderness. Joe's wife was Stevenson's step-daughter. Joe and Louis had been friends for years and were close in age and temperament. Joe was a painter who had studied in Germany and was also an early photographer. Joe had been there before, and upon returning immediately resumed an affair with a native girl, a Sava dancer, whom he loved. He and all of the Stevenson clan became intimately involved with the power struggle between a rebel leader and the king who was appointed by the Germans there. And war was immanent.
Ireland 1947. Seven weeks of relentless snow. Guard Eamon Foley is searching for a missing child.
At Toby Appleyard’s farm, he discovers the kitchen littered with dead cats. And the skeletal remains of a woman. Upstairs, Toby is dead in his bed.
