Last One Out

The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller'A book to get lost in' Ann Cleeves'Utterly brilliant. I could not put it down' Marian KeyesFive years ago, Sam Crowley vanished on his twenty-first birthday. The only clues were his footprints in the dust of three abandoned houses.One set in. One set out.Now, his mother Ro returns to the dying town of Carralon Ridge. The community is a ghost of its former self, fractured by the encroaching mining operation and years of unspoken grief.Ro is looking for answers. But in a town where everyone is leaving, the few who remain are guarding closely held secrets.In this disappearing landscape, can Ro find the truth before the dust settles forever?'I was glued to it for days' – Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things'An exquisite lament for a lost son, a lost marriage and a lost town with a dark mystery at its heart' – Daily Mail'The drama grows to a spectacular crescendo that will leave you gasping’ Daily Express