 The book was adapted for a film of the same name, directed by Kathryn Bigelow and released in 2000.In March 1873, two Norwegian-born women who lived on the desolate Smuttynose Island, one of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, were brutally murdered.Maren Hontvedt, a sister of one of the victims, survived by hiding in a sea cave until dawn.