Mystery, tension, fast paced and action packed, this new story from Turton will have you on the edge of your seat begging for more.

The Ladt Murder At The End Of The World by Stuart Turton.
I give this book 4.25 stars.

Outside the island there is nothing but 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.
Until one of the scientists is found stabbed to death. 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 which means that someone on the island is a murderer - and they don't even know it.

This is my 3rd book by this author and each is a completely different read.
What are the mysteries of the island and the secrets of the islander’s inhabiting it.Nothing is as it seems with a strong sense of foreboding as the time ticks down.An exploration of humanity at its best and worst as the intricate plot is woven together, layer upon layer. An inventive world with a complex cast of characters and a compelling puzzle to solve with plenty of twists along the way. Narrated by Abi, the main character Emory is the perfect candidate to question and challenge everything and everyone. Can she find the murderer and save the island?
Could I say more……yes
Do I want to spoil your enjoyment…… no.
With thanks to Netgalley,Stuart Turton and Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (UK & ANZ), Raven Books for my chance to read and review this book.

This was a fantastic follow up to the Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle! Bending the detective and the sci fi genre, Stuart Turton does it again!

An unusual and thought provoking book set in a dystopian future, but the reader is still able to relate to many of the issues and feelings. I did find the large cast of characters quite confusing at times, but on the whole a good read
Thank you to netgalley and Bloomsbury Publishing for an advance copy of this book.

My first Stuart Turton read was "The Last Murder at the End of the World" and it definitely won't be my last. The book is set in a post-apocalyptic world where the last humans escape to a Greek island to avoid a deadly fog filled with killer insects. But when someone is murdered, they have to solve it before the fog gets them.

The story is different and complicated, maybe a bit too much at times. I liked the plot but didn’t feel connected enough to the characters or their fate. However, the ending was exciting and made me keep turning the pages. I think a lot of people will enjoy this book even though it wasn’t a favorite for me.

A really interesting blend of sci-fi and mystery. I really enjoyed The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and liked this for many of the same reasons. I felt this was a really clever and fresh story which will work for fans of the mystery genre and sci-fi fans.

Having loved Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and greatly disappointed with The Devil and the Dark Water, I came into The Last Murder at the End of the World, the latest by Stuart Turton quite skeptic. Fortunately, I found it a very engaging read, and a well-plotted fresh take on the genre. The pace, often sluggish and over-detailed, is still Turton shortcoming and it still my opinion that his prose should be slightly trimmed by an editor so the reader is not exasperated in the process.

A post-apocalyptic world. An island surrounded by deadly fog. The last of humanity struggling to find a solution. And a whodunnit with massively high stakes. I won't divulge too many details as half the fun of this book is figuring everything out as you go along!. Narrated by an all-seeing artificial intelligence, with multiple POVs and an eclectic cast of characters, it's original, clever and a bit dark. My favourite Stuart Turton book so far, can't wait for more from this author.

I don't think it's me when I am saying that I did not enjoy this book and I reallllly wanted to love it so much as I have loved all his other books so far. He tried something, but it did not work for me. It might work out for someone else though as the writing is still solid.

I thoroughly enjoyed Evelyn so I decided to give this a shot, even though the premise isn’t my usual type of thing. It was certainly intriguing, a murder mystery set amongst the end of civilisation.

There’s a large cast of characters which it took a me a while to get to grips with. I did feel that hindered me for the first half. But once I was on board, I was riveted trying to figure out what was happening in this community. A small group who have been living in their own way now seemingly have their memories disappearing and a murder on their hands - all while a deadly fog approaches. A tense premise and it delivered on that tension.

Would recommend for fans of mysteries and dystopia.

I've read the Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and enjoyed the intricate storytelling. This book was so engaging and I wanted to keep reading more and more chapters. The plot kept me guessing the whole time, I couldn't work out what would happen at the end, although I tried to piece things together.


I received this book from NetGalley in return for an honest review.

I entered this book without having really read much science fiction as it’s not my usual genre at all .

I don’t do science fiction but this was good :) review left on Goodreads ! Revolves around an island and its inhabitants Co inhabiting with 3 scientists. One of the islanders is murdered and they have to solve the murder them selves .

However they only have 92 hours to solve it the threat of some fog that will drop and destroy them .

I surprisingly enjoyed it , and for those that enjoy this genre it’s perfect .

Thank you @bloomsbury publishing and netgalley for the opportunity to read it .

I LOVED THIS BOOK!

I had not read anything by this author before so did not have any expectations but I loved this book. The story is a great twist on the whodunnit genre, with so many twists and turns.

The story is being told through Abi, who is an AI who supports all the villagers trapped on the island and through ABI you get perspectives from different characters across the island giving you insights and understanding that other characters don't have. I really enjoyed the different view points we were getting bit still always through the character of Abi with their own observations.

This is such a creative story with really well thought out and engaging characters. I would definitely recommend and I'm looking forward to reading more by Stuart Turton.

A fog surrounds the whole world killing everything it touches except for one island and half a mile of ocean surrounding it. On this island live three scientists and 122 villagers. They are working together to make their tiny remaining patch of the world a better place. All is going well until one of the scientists is found murdered. Everyone is a suspect and one person isn’t waiting for the truth to come out before meting out justice. This mystery needs solving fast before more people are killed.

What a joy to have a third book from Stuart Turton. Although this has the dystopian AI futuristic fantasy theme, it still feels much more like his original Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle with the plot twists that keep you guessing right up to the last pages. I just loved reading this and delighted in the author’s exceptional writing skills. I wasn’t so keen on his Devil and the Dark Water and wondered if Evelyn was his best book. This one has convinced me that he really does have more great stories to tell and I can’t wait to read them.

Having previously read Turton's fascinating puzzle mystery The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, I was quite used to the idea that he proposes in his latest novel, another little enclosed world that is shrouded in mystery with no apparent means of escape other than death, or deaths in the case of Evelyn Hardcastle. Here in The Last Murder at the End of the World however things seem even more detached from any familiar real world situation, the small community here on an island apparently the only people left alive on the planet. And judging by the prologue, there is not even long left for humanity on the planet, unless Neima can pull off a daring scheme. Judging from the title however, someone is going to be murdered before then.

There are only 93 hours left before the human race becomes extinct. The remaining population of 122 people are on an island, by chance the only place on earth that has escaped from a deadly fog that kills any living thing it touches. Ninety years ago fog appeared from huge sinkholes in the earth, swallowing cities, swarms of insects destroying any living creature, and within a year it has covered the earth. All except the Greek island that housed the Blackheath Institute research laboratory. Neima, the chief researcher there put out the word that people could come there for safety. Now however even the underground laboratory where they worked is sealed off to prevent the fog from drifting up.

Considering the fate of the world, there is evidently a lack of basic essentials that we have become accustomed to, but research groups of volunteers have been set up to explore the island and try to revive old technology. There are other unusual aspects to this society. For a start it's run by three elders: Thea, Neima and Hephaestus who are well over a hundred years old, who force the rest of the population to live by some strange rules, instilling curfews, ensuring that everyone else accepts death at the age of 60 and replacing them with a new child to ensure a controlled population for the limited resources of the island. Only Emory questions the way the island is run and is determined to find answers to questions that no one else seems willing to ask about the telling signs that there is something else going on that they are not being told about.

As if this is not sinister enough, the narrator Abi is 173 years old and is able to read the minds of everyone on the island and can thereby accurately predict the future and the upcoming disaster. Who Abi is is revealed in intriguing drops of information, but as is usual with Turton, the more information you get the more puzzling things get. In a future world which clearly had fabulous technology, memory gems and long-life expectancy, but where almost everything has now been lost, there are many puzzles to be resolved. Turton has a great way of dropping little strange observations in, leading you to suspect that there is some kind of grand conspiracy being played out.

Living up to the title then, the second half of the book becomes a detective murder mystery but being Turton and in a futuristic SF setting where everyone's memories have been deleted, it's far from a conventional thriller. Ultimately The Last Murder at the End of the World is more than just a puzzle, a mystery, the science fiction element as it should being a means to consider human behaviour and inhuman behaviour and it raises questions over how we are supposed to face up to an uncertain future. You can't fault the ideas behind the story or Turton's handling of the material, dropping intriguing clues, presenting tense situations where life and death and a horrible fate are only hours away, and where a SF murder investigation whodunit has a number of original twists. I can't really fault the range of characters developed either, but somehow it all still feels a little too detached and possibly over-complicated to wholeheartedly win you over.

Right from the first page, the reader has questions and the gradual reveal of these and the introduction of more are intriguing and keep you turning the pages. As well as wanting to know more about the inhabitants and society of the group, there is the impending countdown to the destruction of humanity by an encroaching killer black fog and the investigation of a murder, which promises to halt the fog if the murderer is brought to justice.
You definitely need to just go along with the page-turning ride on this crime, thriller dystopian science-fiction mash-up. The world-building is very good and the characters, although briefly sketched, work well. I was initially doubtful about the omni-present voice in people's heads - is this the writer or an omnipotent being - but as the story progresses, I got used to it and the gradual reveal fits in with all the rest of the carefully calculated plotting and set up.
Nothing is as it seems and the climax may pull the rug from under you or irk your sense of trust with the writer after setting up such a ratcheted narrative. Regardless, the read is a thrilling and enjoyable one, creating many memorable images in my mind's eye.

There’s so much to love here, especially the narrator and I am a huge fan of Turton.

The issues I had with this book is the vast amount of characters, I was unable to feel attached to any of them because I was just trying to keep up.

A must read for fans of station eleven.

Welcome to my book review of The Last Murder at the End of the World. First of all a huge thank you to Bloomsbury and NetGalley for the eARC of this novel.

This is the new novel by Stuart Turton, who wrote one of my favourite thrillers The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. I am always intrigued when he brings out something new, so jumped at the chance to read an early copy of this one!

Turton’s novels always offer something slightly different from your regular thriller, and this one is no different. A run of the mill murder mystery with a twist, the last of humanity are the suspects, and there’s 92 hours before the world ends for all of them.

This novel is packed full of twists and turns, your assumptions about the book are constantly undermined and changed, which I quite enjoyed. You also discover more about the situation these characters are living in, and how they came to be the only survivors left on earth.

The only element of this novel which didn’t quite hit were the characters themselves. None of them are likeable, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but I just couldn’t connect or relate to any of them. As a result I read the book feeling quite detached from the action. I don’t really enjoy reading this way, it definitely affects the way I rate a novel.

Despite my lack of connection to the characters, I liked this novel, its a fresh and interesting thriller, which will definitely appeal to fans of Station Eleven!

The World has ended. Everybody is dead, except for a small village on a remote island protected by a barrier. But when a beloved member of the village - one of only three scientists - is found murdered, the barrier starts to fail. And the villagers are left with only days to solve the crime before they die like the rest of the world...

I thought the world building in this book was so clever. I desperately need a prequel about the actual ending of the world! In the meantime though, I was completely gripped by this fascinating science fiction murder mystery and it's thoroughly satisfying twists.

I received a copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review

For some reason unbeknownst to me I could not get into this book. I tried and tried but unfortunately it’s just overly complicated, has too many characters and not ticking my boxes,