The Last Visitor
ANovel
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3.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $18.99
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
An evocative, atmospheric thriller set on an uninhabited island, where a young woman must fight for survival while she works to discover who from her research team is really a killer.
The island was abandoned for fifty years. So how did the body get there?
Three hundred miles from the mainland in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean lies Navigaceo: a tiny island that was hastily abandoned fifty years ago and has been uninhabited ever since. Until now.
Tess Macfarlane is a documentary filmmaker tasked with capturing the wild beauty of Navigaceo. Accompanied by a small team of researchers, her job is to film everything she sees.
But Tess sees too much: a body. It's clearly a recent murder. It shouldn't be there. And the victim is wearing the same expedition uniform as her colleagues.
Someone has been here already, and everyone on the team is a suspect. More than one of them could be a murderer. With five days until they are returned to the mainland, Tess must be careful—or hers might be the next body found on the shore. . . .
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.
