Book 1 of the Sam Seabury Series. At least every five months the body of a young girl turns up dead in a remote tropical lagoon on Thailand's Koh Phangan Island. The local village pipeline carry stories of the place being haunted. Ghosts soar through the trees. Dark spirits lurk below the water. Scary apparitions appear in the night. From then on, the place is called Dead Girl Beach. Municipal police, one nautical mile down the coast in the village of Had Rin, order signs to be posted in the area to prevent people from going there. Most people take the signs seriously and stayed away, all accept Greta Langer. She's a monstrous Amazonian on a kill spree and a bevy of naive, unsuspecting bar hostesses working the bars on Sunrise Beach are her victims. The place has become her office and she's always open for business.