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Jan 10, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Stuart Turton
My earliest reading memoryAn Andy Capp comic strip in my dad’s newspaper when I was six. It was about horse racing and my dad was watching horse racing on the telly. My brain just broke. Where did stories come from? Who wrote them? Why? Were they all about our family? Poor Dad. He just wanted to put a bet on, and I was pestering him about the nature of storytelling. My favourite book growing upMy parents didn’t realise Roald Dahl wrote adult books, so I read some stuff I probably wasn’t ready for.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
waterstones.com | Rob Parker |Stuart Turton
Rob Parker is the author of Far From The Tree, the #1 bestselling thriller for Audible Original and the first instalment in the Thirty Miles trilogy, as well as eight novels for independent publishers. He is the host of Crime Central Manchester, a monthly showcase of emerging crime writing talent and blockbuster bestsellers.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Gail Carriger |Douglas Adams |Kelley Armstrong |Stuart Turton
Reading Lists Maxie Dara recommends humorous and innovative stories on what life after death can look like The world has always been filled with mysteries. Where does the sun go at night? Why is there lightning during a storm? What happens when we die? The fun thing about humans is we can’t just let those mysteries go unsolved. The unknown is frightening, maybe even dangerous, and we live on a whole planet full of it. So we search for answers, and when we don’t know an answer, we have a habit...
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
scottishfield.co.uk | Stuart Turton |Ellie Forbes
Lydia Travers on her love of historical novels, her favourite books of the year so far, and being inspired by Agatha Christie. The first book I remember reading:It would have been an Enid Blyton. She was hugely popular then. I can’t remember which was the first of hers I read, but I do know I devoured them all. The Mystery Books were my favourites: The Rat-a-Tat Mystery and others featuring Roger, Diana, Snubby, Barney, a dog and a monkey.
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May 31, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | Stuart Turton
Stuart Turton, the bestselling author of THE 7½ DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE and THE DEVIL AND THE DARK WATER, is back with an inventive, high-concept murder mystery: an ingenious puzzle, an extraordinary backdrop and an audacious solution. In this interview, Turton talks about his inspiration for THE LAST MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD, why isolated settings appeal to him so much, his favorite character in the book, and what he has in mind for his fourth thriller.
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May 27, 2024 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Stuart Turton
James Cameron Stewart's masterful performance whisks listeners into a postapocalyptic world shrouded in buried secrets and impending mayhem. There's a haunting quality in his portrayal of the villagers on an idyllic island that is run by three scientists and inhabited by 122 survivors of a deadly fog. Stewart's expressive voice conveys the villagers' bewilderment and growing suspicions when one of the scientists is murdered.
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May 25, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | Stuart Turton
On a remote island, what is left of Blackheath, a highly advanced lab, remains. And on that island lives Blackheath’s former director and founding genius, Niema. Niema is one of the three island elders --- a benevolent yet enigmatic leader of the hundred-plus people who live in the village. At first blush, the island is a utopia. Everyone is happy and has exactly what they need. Everyone is safe from the deadly fog that blankets the rest of the earth. That is, until Niema is murdered.
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May 25, 2024 | 
journalgazette.net | Brenda Novak |Nancy Thayer |Stuart Turton
These summer reads are newly available through the Allen County Public Library. “Tourist Season”by Brenda Novak Trapped alone in her fiancé’s family “cottage” as a hurricane bears down on Mariners Island, Ismay Chalmers discovers some disturbing items hidden in a closet that have her questioning everything she knows about the seemingly perfect Windsor family — especially her fiancé.
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May 22, 2024 | 
news.india24.press | Stuart Turton
- Author Stuart Turton is very popular for his claustrophobic and conspiracy mysteries Les 7 ½ morts d’Evelyn Hardcastle et The Devil and the Dark Water, stories that play with ideas of perspective, memory, long-held secrets, and complex conspiracies. And all these elements are at work in his latest, The last murder at the end of the world, a twisty and groundbreaking post-apocalyptic tale about what precisely it means to be human.
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Apr 20, 2024 | 
canberradaily.com.au | C. J. Tudor |Sebastien de Castell |Stuart Turton
This week, Michael Popple reviews three outstanding fantasy and science fiction releases. You can find more of Michael’s book reviews on his blog, unseenlibrary.com Michael Joseph, $34.99In the small Alaskan town of Deadhart, a teenager has been murdered with the blood drained from his body. Suspicion falls on the Colony, the nearby community of vampyrs, and Detective Barbara Atkins is assigned to determine whether a vampyr cull is justified.
