Lana hat die Hoffnung, ihren verschollenen Vater lebend wiederzusehen, niemals aufgegeben. In Malawi angekommen, lernt sie den englischen Diplomaten John Gilbey kennen, der ihr bei den Nachforschungen hilft. Die Spur führt nach Likoma, eine sagenumwobene Insel im Malawisee. Bald jedoch sieht sich Lana von einem Unbekannten verfolgt und wird absichtlich auf falsche Fährten gelockt. Zu spät hört sie auf die Warnungen der Einheimischen: Der uralte Zauber der Insel Likoma bedroht auch sie.
Beverley Harper was born in Bulli on the New South Wales south coast. In 1967 she travelled to Africa, intending to spend one year there. She stayed twenty, returning to settle in Australia in 1988. Despite loving the northern tablelands, the memories of Africa have provided the inspiration for her best-selling novels and she visited that continent for research purposes once a year.
Beverley Harper died of cancer in 2002. She rests at peace in the Africa she so loved. Her ashes lay by the Boteti River in Botswana, below a lodge called Leroo-la-Tau. It means footprints of lion.
She left a draft of her final novel, Footprints of Lion, which was lovingly completed by her husband, Robert Harper, and Peter Watt.
As always Beverley Harper delivers - a well written, interesting story set in Malawi and on the tourist island of Likoma on Lake Nyasa. Her cast of characters are well-drawn and the pace of Echo of an Angry God never slackens!
An enjoyable plot if a bit slow a times. Had all the ingredients...heroine, hero, sidekicks, good guys and real bad guys. The end was reasonably predictable although there was a twist. You will need to read the book to appreciate the twist.
Amazing book - I was intrigued the whole way. I literally felt I was there with the characters. The characters were well developed and the setting inspiring. Well done Beverley!