Readers return to John Grisham’s Camino Island off the coast of southeast Georgia in his latest novel Camino Ghosts being released on May 28. Bookstore owner Bruce Cable has an idea for writer Mercer Mann’s next book: the history of deserted Dark Isle, an island just north of Camino.
Lovely Jackson is the
last living descendant of Dark Isle. When Lovely and her mother are the last inhabitants
of the island, the pair moved to The Docks area of Camino. Lovely has already
written a self-published book about Dark Isle; excerpts are incorporated into
the novel. Bruce knows that Mercer can develop the story further.
Dark Isle’s history is
marred by the slave traders who were capturing Africans and bringing them to
America and by those who hunted runaway slaves who had found exile on the
island. However, the actions of the people of Dark Isle have made outsiders
believe the island is cursed: no white man has left the island alive! Stories
were told that the occupants of the isle were cannibals. Lovely stands by the
curse, and when archeologists want to explore the island, Lovely insists she
needs to accompany them to remove the curse.
Going beyond Lovely’s
book, Mercer would explore the court battle that is brewing as a resort
developer wants to ignore Lovely’s claim that the island is her own as the only
survivor in order to develop the island. With Bruce and Mercer’s help along
with a lawyer friend of Bruce’s, a court case is filed to decide who owns the
title to Dark Isle: Lovely or the state of Florida? The powers that be in
Florida have been considering the sale of Dark Isle to the developer.
John
Grisham made a name for himself with his very first novel, A Time to Kill (1989),
followed by other court procedural novels that made him king of the modern
legal thriller. Camino Ghosts is the third book in the Camino Island
series.
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