Red Water

A woman disappears after a beach party, and the search for her reveals Croatia's complex history well beyond the fall of Communism.
Called The Mediterranean Flower for its beauty, Split has a complex history that is perhaps best explored within a mystery. In 1989, beautiful Silva doesn't come home. Young cop Gorki Sain discovers that she isn't what she seemed--she dabbled in drugs and dealt in heroin. But Gorki soon finds himself out of a job as Yugoslavia plunges into a fratricidal war. Silva's brother stubbornly continues the search amid the upheavals of Croatian society, from the fall of communism through the 1991-1995 war. The former cop returns to solve the 30-year-old mystery in a different role, one less than ethically tied to toxic land speculation and corruption that comes with the tourist boom on the Dalmatian Coast.

About the author

Jurica Pavičic is a Croatian writer, scriptwriter, and journalist, born in 1965 and living in Split, Croatia. He has written seven novels, two collections of short stories and essays on film, Dalmatia and the Mediterranean world. His work has been translated into five languages, but Red Water is his first novel to be translated into English.

Product details

• Authors: Jurica Pavicic, Jurica Pavičic
• Assisted by: Robinson Matt (Translation)
• Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.06.2025
• EAN: 9781916725157
• ISBN: 978-1-916725-15-7
• No. of pages: 402
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Crime & mystery, Historical fiction, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Crime and mystery fiction, FICTION / World Literature / Europe (General), FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II