Bogormen

Title: The Last Murder at the End of the World
Author: Stuart Turton
Genre: Dystopian, Suspense
Rating: 4.5/5
# pages: 330
Date read: May 2024

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.


I really liked it, but it didn't blow me away the way "The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" did.

It was a fascinating concept though, and I got more and more intrigued as the chapters went by and I felt like I had more questions than answers. Every time I thought I had figured out what was going on, some new twist occurred and I was left trying to puzzle it all out again.

At the end of the day, I think the mystery was more interesting than its solution, but it was a feasible solution and not too far fetched, so the book ended up really working for me, and I'm amazed that an author can write two books as different in style and yet both complete page-turners!

I'll have to pick up his third book now, and see if that can live up to the others.