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The Last to Vanish

The Last to Vanish
  • Author(s): Megan Miranda
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction

Will the dark secrets of a small mountain town finally be revealed? Ten years ago, Abigail Lovett fell into a job she loves, working at the Passage Inn, nestled in the resort town of Cutter’s Pass, just off the...

The Last Town

The Last Town
  • Author(s): Blake Crouch
  • Location(s): Idaho
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. Their children are taught that David Pilcher, the town’s creator, is...

The Last Train from Estonia

The Last Train from Estonia
  • Author(s): Jaak Jurison
  • Location(s): Estonia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): WW2

Shortly after the Soviet Army occupied Estonia in 1940, a boy’s beloved father is arrested and sent to prison in Siberia, never to be seen again by his son. Soon the Germans will roll across the border . ....

The Last Train from Paris

The Last Train from Paris
  • Author(s): Juliet Greenwood
  • Location(s): Alsace, Cornwall, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

For Iris, each visit to her mother in St Mabon’s Cove, Cornwall has been the same – a serene escape from the city. But today, as she breathes in the salt air on the doorstep of her beloved childhood...

The Last Train to Key West

The Last Train to Key West
  • Author(s): Chanel Cleeton
  • Location(s): Key West
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1935

Everyone journeys to Key West searching for something. For the tourists traveling on Henry Flagler’s legendary Overseas Railroad, Labour Day weekend is an opportunity to forget the economic depression gripping the nation. But one person’s paradise can be another’s...

The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
  • Author(s): Paul Theroux
  • Location(s): Angola, Namibia, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): early 21st century

“Happy again, back in the kingdom of light,” writes Paul Theroux as he sets out on a new journey through the continent he knows and loves best. Theroux first came to Africa as a twenty-two-year-old Peace Corps volunteer, and...

The Last Tram

The Last Tram
  • Author(s): Nedim Gursel
  • Location(s): Anatolia, Turkey
  • Genre(s): Short Stories, Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

‘What I know about is absence; the endless geography of yearning… For Nedim Gürsel, the state of exile isn’t a static condition, applying to a single person in a specific place, but an entire landscape of longing, through which...

The Last Trial

The Last Trial
  • Author(s): Scott Turow
  • Location(s): Illinois
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the bestselling author of Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow’s The Last Trial recounts the final case of Kindle County’s most revered courtroom advocate, Sandy Stern. On the brink of retirement, legendary defence attorney Sandy Stern is persuaded to take...

The Last Victim

The Last Victim
  • Author(s): Karen Robards
  • Location(s): Virginia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Dr. Charlotte Stone sees what others do not. A sought-after expert in criminal pathology, Charlie regularly sits face-to-face with madmen. Obsessed with learning what makes human monsters commit terrible crimes, Charlie desires little else from life—no doubt because when...

The Last Village

The Last Village
  • Author(s): Audla English
  • Location(s): The North East (England), South Tyneside
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1940s and modern day

The majestic Souter Lighthouse stands proudly at the edge of the cliff top surrounded by open grassy empty fields and overlooking a vast blue wilderness. Anna Charles knows nothing of the life that her grandmother once had here. It...

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