The Last Visitor
A Novel

An intriguing start hooks me into Martin Griffin’s latest novel, it’s full of tension and has this reader asking a multitude of questions! Tess Macfarlane is a wildlife documentary filmmaker and owner of Pocket Films. Ten years ago she makes her name with ‘Spill’ but that film hangs over her to this......more

Tess Macfarlane is a documentary videomaker, who is approached by Seawild, a marine research foundation, to capture the beauty and fragility of the monk seal population on Navigaceo, an island off the coast of Madeira in Portugal. Navigaceo is a part of the Desertas Islands archipelago, and it’s the......more

At first, I could not determine why I thought this audiobook was so boring. Was it the narrator or the story itself? Well, it was unfortunately both. The narrator truly seemed like she was bored reading the story. She was monotone and uninterested. I listened at 1.75x. The storyline was lacking depth.......more

There is always something so alluring about a locked room mystery, isn’t there? The setting on a remote and isolated island definitely piqued my interest. Unfortunately, ‘The Last Visitor‘ didn’t quite live up to my expectations. To begin with, I wasn’t particularly fond of the main character, Tess.......more

Tess hat sich als Dokumentarfilmerin einen Namen gemacht und wurde für ein spannendes Projekt angeworben. Zusammen mit einem kleinen Team soll sie die verlassene Insel Navigaceo bereisen und deren außergewöhnliche Flora und Fauna dokumentieren. Doch dort angekommen entdeckt Tess ein Skelett, welches......more