Beat Not the Bones

In the island port of Marapai, where white men tried to rule and often found it too hard, in the jungles of New Guinea, where the power of the native sorcery, Vada, was strong, a brave young woman, Emma Warwick, searched for the truth about her husband's death. She fought the heat, the insects, and the human beings who had been distorted by the tropics, by drink, by fears of themselves and their wretched lives. She struggled through the nightmare maze of the hunt, to find at the end a dark and fearful secret.

Charlotte Jay, a new young writer, knows the people and the island about which she writes, and brilliant conveys the mystery and the power of the strange world.