Then there is the unkempt, dark-haired dude with patches on his clothing who seems to have come with the restaurant — Clifford. He is mean to Veronica from the beginning. He keeps on telling her that he wishes that she would go home even as he sweeps floors and does garden work for her parents. When he runs into her investigating noises at night, he rudely shoves her back into her room and even locks the door. He tells her to mind her own business.
Veronica meets the other islanders, a gang of kids her own age, who live on the rocky promontory that juts out into the sea where the volcano is located. They don’t want her to have to stay locked up all day at the Sanctuary Grill with Clifford. But it is when they take her out on the town and decide to show Veronica a good time, that the plot reaches its “explosive” climax. The volcano has a few things to say about it, too.
Death at the Grill was originally published in Germany by Cora Verlag, now Harper Collins Germany. It is now brought to you by Edward Ware Thrillers YA, an imprint of Cheops Books LLC. If you like this young adult thriller you might also like Are You Afraid Of The Dark?, Dark 2, Dark 3, Book of the Dead, Double Possession, and a host of other YA novels by Linda Cargill or Dora Benley, Linda Cargill’s pen name.
