The whole world is gone. A fog spread across the entire planet, destroying all human life, stopping only at the edge of the very last island. This island is occupied by refugees, villagers, and scientists. It was the scientists who figured out how to hold back the fog, on one condition – the machine keeping humanity safe would switch off should one of the scientists be murdered. When the head scientist is killed, it’s up to one villager, Emory, to figure out what happened and bring the murderer to justice before the fog reaches the island. The only problem is, nobody could have wanted Niema dead. That is, unless they had discovered one of the many, many secrets Niema was keeping.
This book is fantastic! It starts off in an idyllic post-apocalyptic village, but piece by piece we begin to see that every part of the island is a piece of a machine, and what we are reading is actually advanced science fiction. Emory and the rest of the villagers are so likeable and kind that we desperately want them to be saved from the fog, even as we start to think that maybe humanity hasn’t done much to deserve to be saved. I had such a good time reading The Last Murder at the End of the World, and I recommend it to all of our adult readers.
