The Last Crossing

  • David H Headley

  • Book Club; Crime; Mystery

  • April 2020

    • Frisian: Uitgeverij Elikser​

    • World English Language: Constable Books, Little Brown

What do you do when your child disappears?

Tony, Hugh and Karen thought they’d seen the last of each other thirty years ago. Half a lifetime has passed and memories have been buried. But when they are asked to reunite – to lay ghosts to rest for the good of the future – they all have their own reasons to agree. As they take the ferry from Northern Ireland to Scotland the past is brought into terrible focus – some things are impossible to leave behind.
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In The Last Crossing memory is unreliable, truth shifts and slips and the lingering legacy of the Troubles threatens the present once again.

  • WINNER OF THE HIGHLY COMMENDED AWARD 2021 AT THEAKSTON’S CRIME

Selected Praise

“.. McGilloway brings a forensic and compassionate eye to bear on the post-Troubles settlement in this thoughtful, moving, morally complex book.”
— ​Irish Times
“Poetic, humane and gripping... reminded me of Bernard MacLaverty’s early work. Yes, it’s that good.”
— Ian Rankin
“[A] superb book... thoughtful and insightful, wrenching and utterly compelling. It says something truly profound and universal about love, loyalty and revenge... ”
— Jane Casey

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