By Midge Raymond and John Yunker. Oceanview Publishing, 2024.

On a remote island off the coast of Tasmania, an Australian wilderness guide embarks on a four-day hike with six guests—and arrives at their destination with only two. Through the structure of a closed-door mystery, Devils Island tells the story of the Tasmanian devil and its struggle to survive. While there’s an abundance of nonfiction about climate change and mass extinction, Devils Island adds to a small but fast-growing sub-genre of eco-mysteries.

Midge Raymond is the author of the novels Floreana and My Last Continent and the award-winning short-story collection Forgetting English. Her writing has appeared in TriQuarterly, American Literary Review, Bellevue Literary Review, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Poets & Writers, and other publications. John Yunker writes plays, short stories, and novels. He is the author of the novel The Tourist Trail; editor of the Among Animals fiction series and a nonfiction anthology, Writing for Animals. Both John and Midge are members of ASLE.