Stuart Turton and Jo Callaghan in conversation at Waterstones Piccadilly

Join us as for an evening with Stuart Turton and Jo Callaghan as we celebrate publication of their latest novels The Last Murder at the End of the World and Leave No Trace.

From Stuart Turton, the award-winning author of our two former Thrillers of the Month, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Water comes an ingenious dystopian thriller revolving around a murder in an island paradise that holds what is left of the world.

From Jo Callaghan comes Leave No Trace. Deftly mixing crime thriller and dystopian chiller, this dazzling clever page-turner from the author of In the Blink of an Eye finds the world's first AI detective embark upon a violent and disturbing new case.

Stuart Turton’s debut novel, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, won the Costa First Novel Award and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Novel, and was shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards and the British Book Awards Debut of the Year. A Sunday Times bestseller, it has been translated into over thirty languages, and has sold over one million copies in the UK and US combined. The Devil and the Dark Water, his follow up, won the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Fiction and was selected for the BBC Two Book Club, Between the Covers, and the Radio 2 Jo Whiley Book Club. Stuart lives near London with his wife and daughters.

Jo Callaghan works fulltime as a senior strategist, where she has carried out research into the future impact of AI and genomics on the workforce. After losing her husband to cancer in 2019 when she was just forty-nine, she started writing In the Blink of an Eye, her debut crime novel, which explores learning to live with loss and what it means to be human. In The Blink of an Eye was selected for BBC 2’s ‘Between the Covers’ in Spring 2023, and Jo was a featured debut at Harrogate Crime Festival and Bloody Scotland Festival. She lives with her two children in the Midlands. Leave No Trace is her second novel.

Please note: Book and ticket option includes either a copy of The Last Murder at the End of the World (RRP: £20) or Leave No Trace (RRP: £16.99) which will be available for collection on the day.