The Devil and the Dark Water

A murder on the high seas. A detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist. It's 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported to Amsterdam to be executed for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. Travelling with him is his loyal bodyguard, Arent Hayes, who is determined to prove his friend innocent. But no sooner are they out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. A twice-dead leper stalks the decks. Strange symbols appear on the sails. Livestock is slaughtered. And then three passengers are marked for death, including Samuel. Could a demon be responsible for their misfortunes? With Pipps imprisoned, only Arent can solve a mystery that connects every passenger onboard. A mystery that stretches back into their past and now threatens to sink the ship, killing everybody on board. The breathtaking new novel from Stuart Turton, author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle , winner of the Costa Best First Novel Award.

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It's a tad Holmes and Watson, a touch Treasure Island, but there's so much else, too; the lives of women at the time, the contemporary obsession with witchcraft and most of all the authentic stink, creak, superstition and slop of life on board an Indiaman, roaring sailors and all. If you read one book this year, make sure it's this one Wendy Holden Daily Mail

Product details

• Authors: Turton Stuart Turton, Stuart Turton, Turton Stuart
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781408889657
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-8965-7
• No. of pages: 555
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 233 mm x 42 mm
• Series: High/Low
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Adventure, Historical romance, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, FICTION / Crime, Historical mysteries, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, HISTORY / General, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, FICTION / Horror, FICTION / Thrillers / Historical, FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical, Horror & ghost stories, Myth & legend told as fiction, FICTION / Science Fiction / Crime & Mystery