New York, NY: Sourcebooks | Landmark (May 21, 2024)

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From the bestselling author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Water comes an inventive, high-concept murder mystery set on a isolated island where an astonishing murder triggers a world-ending phenomenon that can only be stopped if the killer is found.

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.

STUART TURTON is the best-selling author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Water. His books have won numerous awards, and been translated into thirty-seven languages, selling over a million copies. And the clock is ticking.