In the Bahamas the carnal hours occupy the time between dark and daylight. They also occupy the sharp mind of Chicago shamus Nathan Heller, once again sleuthing his way through a period mystery that tosses real characters in with invented ones and juxtaposes a documented death with an imagined one. Collins is a master of this sub-genre: Heller's previous adventures have produced many award nominations and three outright wins, the last being a Shamus for Stolen Away , in which Nate found himself solving the Lindbergh case. Here he's sweating in the Caribbean heat after local millionaire Sir Harry Oakes hires him to get the goods on his smooth...
Journalist Joe Oakes is a born skeptic who makes his living exposing supernatural hoaxes. But his stay with a cult-like religious group on Scotland's remote Pig Island might be enough to turn him into a believer.
Joe Oakes is on the trail of a strange creature caught on some amateur film footage: a figure so deformed it can hardly be human. Recently arrived on the remote Scottish island where it was sighted, he is determined to expose the creature as the religious hoax it so obviously must be. But his confrontation, and its violent and bloody aftermath, is so catastrophic that it forces him to question the nature of evil ...
