An anonymous Adriatic island, a London journalist called Richard and his girlfriend Trish, a PR and marketing executive, are the main players in this fiction book, From Nemesis Island, by new author, Christine Mustchin.

The book opens to a prologue that sets our scene with a picture of struggling, cruelty, escape and healing, themes which are replayed throughout the rest of the novel. This is in stark contrast to the opening of the first chapter where we are introduced to Richard, the journalist, sitting in a cafe, in a beautiful undiscovered part of the Adriatic coast. His job is …