Martin Griffin
Thriller Writer, The Second Stranger, The Last Visitor
"tense and absorbing... stylishly written... breathtaking."
The Wall Street Journal
Discover the Books Thriller Writer, The Second Stranger, The Last Visitor
"tense and absorbing... stylishly written... breathtaking."
The Wall Street Journal
Discover the BooksMartin Griffin is an acclaimed author of thrillers whose work has been translated into multiple languages. He lives in Manchester, UK, with his wife and daughter.
The Second Stranger (2023) was followed by The Last Visitor (2024). His third novel, Burning Season, will be published in November 2026.
He is currently working on his fourth.
"Fresh, gripping and addictive! An absolute gem"
Remie Yorke has one shift left at the Mackinnon Hotel in the remote Scottish Highlands before she leaves for good. Then Storm Ezra hits. As temperatures plummet and phone lines go down, an injured man stumbles inside. PC Don Gaines was in a terrible accident on the mountain road. The only other survivor: the prisoner his team was transporting.
When a second stranger arrives, Remie reluctantly lets him in from the blizzard. He, too, is hurt. He claims to be a police officer. His name is also Don Gaines.
Someone is lying and, with no means of escape, Remie must work out who. If the cold doesn't kill her, one of these men will get there first . . .
"The island was abandoned for fifty years. So how did the body get there?"
Five hundred kilometres out in the Atlantic Ocean lies an island. The last in its tiny archipelago, Navigaceo contains only empty caves, an abandoned lighthouse and a colony of seals. The last time anyone set foot there was 1971. Until now. A team of research scientists, accompanied by Quin Macfarlane, a documentary filmmaker, are the first in recent memory to explore the island's tangled forests.
But on arrival, Quin makes a devastating discovery; while filming, she spots a body in a cove at the foot of the treacherous cliffs. And although nobody has been on Navigaceo for half a century, the corpse has all the markers of a recent death . . .
Each member of the research team has secrets. More than one of them could be a murderer. It's five days until they will be returned to the mainland. And Quin knows if she's not careful, there could be another body on the shore by morning.
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