He had minimal communication with Vicki in recent times as she was flighty, always on the move, always heading off on her next adventure. He has successfully climbed the corporate ladder but at a cost. Alex is a lobbyist with a challenging and exhausting job that he is struggling with. Her brother Alex is given the news by his father and, at his Dad’s request, he travels to Finland with the plan to repatriate her body before Christmas. Identified as Vicky Evans, she was British and worked as a tour-guide at a local winter resort. It’s December and as the tourists flock to enjoy the Santa experience, a young woman’s body is discovered in a nearby icy lake.

Immediately a chill creeps up the spine as the horror unfolds and the reality of what you are reading hits you with a bang.įinland is the setting for this disturbing thriller revealing an unfamiliar side to Lapland. How about that for a shocking and traumatic opening to a book? Might I suggest you immediately get your hands on a copy of The Last to Disappear. Her entire body becomes one desperate plea: let it end. The ice-cold water paralyses every muscle.

Described as a ‘chilling new thriller set in the frozen heart of Finland’ it is a book that I (and himself) thoroughly enjoyed! The Last to Disappear by Jo Spain published May 12th with Quercus. But in this remote, frozen place, death seems only ever a heartbeat away. On the surface, Koppe, Lapland is a winter wonderland. It’s not long before he learns that three other women have gone missing from the area in the past and that his sister may have left him a message. Agatha is a no-nonsense single mother of three who already thinks there’s more to Vicky’s case than meets the eye.Īs the two form an unlikely alliance, Alex also begins to suspect the small town where his sister lived and died is harbouring secrets. He travels to the wealthy winter resort where Vicky worked as a tour-guide and meets Agatha Koskinen, the detective in charge.

When young London professional Alex Evans is informed that his sister’s body has been pulled from an icy lake in Northern Lapland, he assumes his irresponsible sister accidentally drowned.

Three women disappear