The Last Hour Between Worlds
core novel 2024 The Echo Archives
Record
| First published | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.79 (5,619 ratings, collected 2026-08-20) |
| Page count | 432 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780316303477 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Investigator Kembral Thorne is enjoying a rare night off at a glittering year-turning party when guests begin dropping dead one after another, and a mysterious antique clock starts sending everyone at the gathering plunging down through nightmarish alternate layers of reality, called Echoes, each time it chimes. As the deaths mount and the partygoers are trapped cycling deeper into increasingly dangerous and distorted versions of the same night, Kem must set aside her usual methodical approach and team up with her old nemesis, the notorious and infuriatingly charming cat burglar Rika Nonesuch, if either of them hopes to see the party, and the ordinary world beyond it, again. To save her city from whatever set the deadly clock in motion, Kem has to solve a murder mystery that keeps resetting itself, working against a partner she has every reason not to trust.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Echo Archives
- Series: The Echo Archives core; position 1 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Melissa Caruso
Notes
- From the series record (The Echo Archives): Two books published to date; a third (The Last Star in the Void) is publisher-announced for 2026 but not yet released, so is not recorded as a book in this canon.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Echo Archives: position 1 of 2: next The Last Soul Among Wolves (2025)
Sources
- Publisher listing: The Echo Archives
- Rating-platform listing: The Echo Archives
- https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/melissa-caruso/the-last-hour-between-worlds/9780316303477/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Caruso
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