Rachel and Liam have their diving business on Ko Tao, Thailand. Ko Tao is an island in Thailand and forms part of the Chumphon Archipelago on the western shore of the Gulf of Thailand. It covers an area of about 21 km².
Rachel is an expert in diving, but now she is learning free diving. Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving is a form of underwater diving that relies on divers’ ability to hold their breath until resurfacing rather than on the use of a breathing apparatus such as scuba gear.
After Julian’s death, Diana is told to try to engage in activities she likes. So Adam takes her to Chesil Beach, where they fly a kite. Chesil Beach in Dorset, southern England is one of three major shingle structures in Britain. The shingle beach is 29 kilometres long, 200 metres wide and 15 metres high.
Rachel’s investigation into Julian’s death takes her to Maryland, where Madison Kopeck was from. Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east. The state’s largest city is Baltimore, and its capital is Annapolis.
Rachel and Ross talk to Madison’s friend on Chesapeake Beach, where the young woman works. Chesapeake Beach is a town in Calvert County, Maryland. Its major attractions include a Railway Museum & Trail, the Chesapeake Beach Water Park, marinas, piers, charter boat fishing, and a Veterans Memorial Park.
While Rachel returns to England, Ross goes to Montego Bay, where they know Julian had gone. Montego Bay is the capital of the parish of St. James and is also Jamaica’s only other officially incorporated city, referred to as The Second City or more widely known as MoBay in local lingo and sometimes Bay by the locals. The city is however the fourth largest urban area by population after Kingston, Spanish Town and Portmore, all of which form the Greater Kingston Metropolitan Area, home to over half a million people.
In the investigation there is a continuous reference to FDA. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) is a federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments. The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the control and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, dietary supplements, prescription and over-the-counterpharmaceutical drugs (medications), vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, blood transfusions, medical devices, electromagnetic radiationemitting devices (ERED), cosmetics, animal foods & feed and veterinary products.
Charlie, Diana’s son, is a boarder in Harrow School. Harrow School is an independent boarding school for boys in Harrow, London. The school has an enrolment of 821 boys spread across twelve boarding houses, all of whom board full-time. It remains one of four all-boys, full-boarding schools in Britain, the others being Eton College, Radley College and Winchester College.
