Could a demon be responsible for their misfortunes? With Pipps imprisoned, only Arent can solve a mystery that connects every passenger onboard.Ī 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. And then three passengers are marked for death, including Samuel. But no sooner are they out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage.Ī twice-dead leper stalks the decks.

Travelling with him is his loyal bodyguard, Arent Hayes, who is determined to prove his friend innocent. The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton combines the macabre with the mind-bending in this intricate historical detective novel. 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. But most of the watchers, although chilled by his proclamation, shrug it off as the ramblings of a madman.

The man, who is found to have no tongue, bursts into flames and dies a painful death. Buy this book from .uk to support The Reading Agency and local bookshops at no additional cost to you.Ī murder on the high seas. On the dockside a leper appears atop a pile of crates and issues a dreadful warning that the voyage will end in ruin. So opens The Devil and the Dark Water, the sophomore novel from Stuart Turton, whose 2018 debut The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, a time-bending murder mystery which no spoilers had one foot squarely planted in Being John Malkovich territory and the other in Groundhog Day, and which subsequently became a runaway success.

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