Last to Leave the Room: A Novel [Paperback]

Last to Leave the Roomis a new novel of genre-busting speculative horror from Caitlin Starling, the acclaimed author ofThe Death of Jane Lawrence.

The city of San Siroco is sinking. The basement of Dr. Tamsin Rivers, the arrogant, selfish head of the research team assigned to find the source of the subsidence, is sinking faster.

As Tamsin becomes obsessed with the distorting dimensions of the room at the bottom of the stairs, she finds a door that didnt exist before - and one night, it opens to reveal an exact physical copy of her. This doppelg?nger is sweet and biddable where Tamsin is calculating and cruel. It appears fully, terribly human, passing every test Tamsin can devise. But the longer the double exists, the more Tamsin begins to forget pieces of her life, to lose track of time, to grow terrified of the outside world.

With her employer growing increasingly suspicious, Tamsin must try to hold herself together long enough to figure out what her double wants from her, and just where the mysterious door leads&

Caitlin Starlingis the nationally bestselling author ofThe Death of Jane Lawrence,Last to Leave the Room, and the Bram Stoker-nominatedThe Luminous Dead. Her other works of genre-hopping horror and speculative fiction includeYellow Jessamineand a Vampire: The Masquerade novella,The Land of Milk and Honey. Her short fiction has been published by GrimDark Magazine, and her nonfiction has appeared inNightmare,Uncanny, andNightfire. Caitlin also works in narrative design, and has been paid to invent body parts. Shes always on the lookout for new ways to inflict insomnia.

A taut, ominous gothic that plays with preconceptions of gender and genre alike. Starling illuminates her characters brilliantly, and isn't afraid of the dark corners behind them. This book runs like clockwork -- but it's unpredictable too, unnervingly so, like a machine finely ls)