The Last Murder at the End of the World

Stuart Turton

  • Harry Illingworth

  • Crime; Speculative

  • March 2024

    • France: Sonatine

    • Germany: Klett Cotta

    • Greece: Mataihmio

    • Italy: Neri Pozza

    • Japan: Bungei Shunju

    • Poland: Wydawnictwo Albatros

    • Russia: Azbooka-Atticus

    • Slovakia: Slovensky Spisovatel

    • Spain: Atico do los Libros

    • Sweden: Modernista

    • UK & Commonwealth: Bloomsbury Raven

Solve the murder to save what's left of the world.

Outside the island there is nothing: the world destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island: it is idyllic. 122 villagers and 3 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 they learn 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 92 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…

Selected Praise

“The Last Murder at the End of the World is wildly inventive. Stuart Turton is a unique talent.”
— M. W. Craven, author of the bestselling Washington Poe series
“Stuart Turton’s literary pyrotechnics are on full display in this magnificently sly novel. Turton somehow manages to reinvent both himself and the mystery genre with every book. An absolute blast.”
— Benjamin Stevenson, author of Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone

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