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The Last Murder at the End of the World
A Mystery Novel by Stuart Turton
Subgenres:
- Locked Room,
- Dystopian,
- Science Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Locked-room mysteries where memory loss scrambles every alibi
- Apocalyptic settings with survival hinging on solving a murder
- High-stakes puzzles where the whole community is a suspect
From Little Stack
The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton is a brilliantly inventive read, with the entire room turned into a locked room. The novel is set on a remote island that may be humanity’s final refuge after a deadly fog wiped out civilization. Life on the island seems peaceful, until one of the scientists who keeps the community safe is found murdered. Suddenly, the protective barrier keeping the lethal fog at bay begins to fail, trapping everyone on the island with a terrifying deadline.
The locked-room twist is deliciously clever: the killer must be one of the island’s inhabitants… but nobody remembers the night of the murder because their memories have been wiped. With time ticking down and nowhere to escape, suspicion spreads across the small community as secrets surface and alliances fracture.
Blending classic puzzle-box mystery with dystopian stakes and big sci-fi ideas, Turton delivers a gripping, high-concept whodunnit that keeps you guessing while proving the locked-room mystery can still evolve in thrilling, unexpected ways.
A gripping tale that reads like a Sherlock Holmes novel set in a broken future. From the bestselling author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Water comes an inventive, high-concept murder mystery: an ingenious puzzle, an extraordinary backdrop, and an audacious solution.
Solve the murder to save what's left of the world. Outside the island there is nothing: the world was destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island: it is idyllic. One hundred and twenty-two villagers and three scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they're told by the scientists.
Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of their beloved scientists is found brutally stabbed to death. And then they learn that the murder has triggered a lowering of the security system around the island, the only thing that was keeping the fog at bay. If the murder isn't solved within 107 hours, the fog will smother the island—and everyone on it.
But the security system has also wiped everyone's memories of exactly what happened the night before, which means that someone on the island is a murderer—and they don't even know it. And the clock is ticking.
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