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Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2025, Stuart Turton, joins Harrogate International Festivals and host Joe Haddow, to talk about his book, The Last Murder at the End of the World.
The small group of villagers who live on the tiny island lead simple, but happy lives. There is no world beyond their shores, but they’re content with what they have. Only Emory feels frustrated. Unlike everyone else on the island she doesn’t yet seem to have a purpose. All she seems to be good at is asking questions.
But then one of the scientists who guides the villagers is found murdered and as there has never been a crime before, there is no detective to call on. There is only Emory and her gift for asking questions. So now Emory must explore every inch of her island from the cliffs to the jungles, from sandy beaches to the very top of the mountain to find clues that apparently don’t exist. How can she solve a mystery on an island where no one lies but there’s still no way to find the culprit?
About the Author
Stuart Turton’s debut, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, won the Costa First Novel Award and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Novel, and was shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards and the British Book Awards Debut of the Year. It was a Sunday Times bestseller, and it has been translated into over thirty languages, selling over one million copies in the UK and the US combined. The Devil and the Dark Water, his follow-up, won the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Fiction and was selected for the BBC Two Book Club, Between the Covers and Jo Whiley’s Radio 2 Book Club. Stuart lives near London with his wife and daughters
