BR:2-13 Dead Man's Island

"“I was drunk and-and I hit somebody.”"

17-year-old Carol Sanders was happy at school in England. She had lots of friends and enjoyed listening to English, especially pop music. One day, a sudden tragic accident happened to her family. During the business trip of her father, unfortunately, a plane crash took his life. That accident made them into mentally desperate situation. Then they decided to get a new job in order to mollify their broken heart. They found a job at a mysterious island. They got a job at a big house in the island, and the master of the house gave them room each. A couple of weeks went by, the girl found that locked room. Then she realized that someone uses the room frequently.

At first, in the first half of the book, I thought that the person is their father. It is because that the title of this book is "Dead Man's Island" and the lord of the house looks always sad, so I thought the man must be the one who knows something about her father's death. However, as it turns out, there are no relationships between them. As a matter of fact, the unknown person who uses the room was the master of the house.

His true identity was that one of the most famous and rich singer who was thought to have died due to a car accident. Carol was really surprised of that, and she requested him to spell the truth out in exchange for keeping secret of him. He confessed that he killed a girl with his car while he was in a state of stoned, and that's the reason why he hid in the remote island.

In the end of the story, he told her what he did for the girl, and Carol heard the truth and decided not to tell it anybody. However, I think nothing is solved. The man is a murderer and he didn't atone for his crime as well. I don't understand why the author came to the end of it. I can't  stand it.

Escott John. (2000). Dead Man's Island. Oxford : Oxford University Press.

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