We follow Miranda, a nature photographer who travels to the Farallon Islands, an exotic archipelago off the coast of California, for a one-year residency capturing the landscape. Her only companions are the scientists there, odd and quirky refugees from the mainland living in rustic conditions. They document the whales and seals around the island, the bold trio of sharks called the Sister that hunt the surrounding dung waters, and the overwhelming, violent bird population. …upends the traditional structure of a mystery novel- an isolated environment, a limited number of characters that might not be trustworthy, and a death that may have been accidental…