Five strangers. A locked room. A twenty-year-old secret that refuses to stay buried.
On a bleak November afternoon, an impenetrable fog cuts off Blackwood Manor from the rest of the world. Five seemingly unconnected guests?a disgraced doctor, a wealthy dowager, a cynical artist, a guarded academic, and a quiet housekeeper?are summoned by the eccentric Augustus Pemberton. He promises a revelation that will change everything.
But before the curtain can rise on his grand performance, Pemberton is discovered dead inside his private study. The cause? Poison. The twist? The door is bolted from the inside, the windows are latched, and the room is perfectly sealed.
As the house's synchronized clocks begin dropping cryptic clues, the guests are forced to break open more than just locked doors. Bound together by a horrific train disaster from exactly twenty years prior, they must dissect their own dark histories to unmask the killer among them. With the police arriving on the morning train at dawn, a tense, psychological game of cat-and-mouse unfolds in the shadows.
Rich in atmospheric dread and classic Edwardian mystery, The Last Train from Blackwood is a brilliant locked-room whodunit where the ultimate puzzle isn't just how the victim died?but who carries the heaviest guilt.
