Last One Out

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BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DRYIn a dying town, Ro Crowley waits for her son on the evening of his 21st birthday.But Sam never comes home. His footprints in the dust of three abandon ed houses offer the only clue to his final movements. One set in. One set out.Five long years later, Ro returns to Carralon Ridge for the annual memorial of Sam's disappearance. The skeletal community is now an echo of itself, having fractured under the pressure of the coal mine operating on its outskirts.But Ro still wants answers. Only a few people remain. If the truth is to be found in that town, does it lie among them? 'Harper's gift for the rural psyche turns the novel into a study not just of loss, but of the delicate calculus of leaving and staying' - Good Weekend'Harper is peerless in creating an avalanche of suspense' - David Baldacci'Utterly brilliant . . . I could not put it down' - Marian Keyes Show more