The Last Visitor
The nail-biting new thriller from the author of The Second Stranger
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3.5 • 4 Ratings
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
'Fresh, gripping and addictive' DAILY MAIL
'Tense and absorbing . . . Reminiscent of And Then There Were None' WALL STREET JOURNAL
'Grips you from start to finish' KATE RHODES
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The island was abandoned for fifty years.
So how did the body get there?
Five-hundred kilometres from land in the middle of Atlantic Ocean lies Navigaceo, a tiny island hastily deserted fifty years ago and uninhabited ever since. Until now.
Tess Macfarlane is part of the very first return expedition and, as a documentary filmmaker, her job is to record everything she sees. Whatever Tess is expecting to find, it is not a body. Recently killed and wearing the uniform of the expedition team.
It soon becomes clear that someone on Tess's team is a killer. With five days until she can return to the mainland and no idea who to trust, can Tess avoid becoming the next body discovered on the shore?
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REAL READER REVIEWS OF THE LAST VISITOR
'A great book for those Looking for an intriguing, well-plotted mystery'
'My heart was racing, and I couldn't put the book down. Lucky this was such a fast paced and quick read!'
'The huge twist later on kept me right on the edge literally of those rocky escarpments'
'Completely devourable. I haven't read anything by Martin before, but I will be sure to now'
'The writing is atmospheric and the description of the isolation of the location is superb'
'Griffin demonstrates a talent for captivating readers and holding their attention with compelling characters and a well-crafted plot'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Griffin (The Second Stranger) impresses with this taut and inventive closed-circle whodunit. After winning acclaim for Spill, a muckraking documentary about a crooked oil company, Tess McFarlane went from "the UK's most promising young filmmaker" to "a cautionary tale" when she failed to get a sophomore project off the ground. Eager to turn her career around, Tess takes a job documenting the endangered seal population on the isolated island of Navigaceo—a few hundred miles off the coast of Madeira—for marine research foundation Seawild. Shortly after Tess and her team of researchers arrive on Navigaceo, she discovers a corpse wearing a Seawild uniform, challenging claims that no one has set foot on the island in decades. Tess's cohorts identify the dead man as one of their former colleagues, who disappeared two years earlier during an assignment on the nearby island of Deserta Grande, igniting Tess's suspicion that one of her current companions might have killed him—and could kill her next. Meanwhile, a DCI tries to get in touch with Tess about an open case concerning her partner on Spill. Griffin conjures a tense, paranoid atmosphere and steers the narrative in genuinely surprising directions. This sleek Agatha Christie update is a cut above similar fare.
