The Last Murder at the End of the World

How it reads

The Last Murder at the End of the World is mystery (speculative locked-room mystery, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.

It's set in an invented world, in the future, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are survival, secrets and power and politics. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending resolves happily. At 368 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.