The Last Ferry Out

A Novel

By: Andrea Bartz

Narrated by: Dani Martineck, Imani Jade Powers, Natasha Soudek

Paradise hides a deadly secret. From the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick We Were Never Here . . .

When Abby steps foot on Isla Colel, she isn’t sure what—if anything—she’ll find. She only knows that she needs to see the place where her fiancée, Eszter, died to try and make sense of the tragic accident.

The island is nothing like Abby expected: Though it was once a bustling tourist hub, a hurricane has left it a shell of its former self, with only a handful of residents remaining. Even the once-daily ferry to the mainland now runs every week or so.

There, Abby befriends an alluring group of expats, but her sense of unease surges when one of them says he knows the truth about Eszter’s final days. Before he can tell her more, though, he vanishes from the island. Hours turn to days with no sign of him, and the others are chillingly cavalier about his disappearance.

As her quest for the truth unearths dark secrets, shady pasts, and a web of lies, Abby grows more determined than ever to find out what happened to the love of her life. And the deeper she gets in the close-knit expat community, the more she suspects that one of them is Eszter’s killer—and will do anything to keep the truth buried. But will Abby discover who it is before she becomes the island’s next victim?

©2025 Andrea Bartz (P)2025 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

“[A] stylish, serpentine thriller . . . pairing tender explorations of grief and homophobia with a series of horrifying twists. [Readers] willing to follow Bartz’s lead are in for a memorable ride.”—Publishers Weekly

“Set on an eerie and beautiful island, The Last Ferry Out is a methodically paced suspense novel with richly drawn characters. Expect to lose sleep with this one. Readers will be up late, racing to put the puzzle pieces together.”—Emiko Jean, New York Times bestselling author of The Return of Ellie Black

“A captivating mystery whose beating heart is the relationship between the main character and her fiancée . . . I couldn’t put it down.”—Lauren Ling Brown, USA Today bestselling author of Society of Lies

Fresh perspective on the female driven thriller!

I have loved all of Andrea Bartz’s novels especially this one and We were never here, though honestly loved all of them. This is the first time I’ve ever read a thriller that has queer female leads and it’s refreshing to get a new perspective and also it leads to some really interesting tension with the families of the characters in the story. It’s also fun cause they have multiple narrators which helps you realize that one of them is doing a fake accent around tbe others and adds to the drama As a straight lady I still felt like I was able to identify with these characters. I don’t want to give anything away but give it the first chapter and you will absolutely be sucked into this story!!