![]() A TRIUMPH' Will Deanįrom the author of the dazzling The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, winner of the Costa Best First Novel Award, comes an audacious and original new high concept murder mystery. ![]() 'A superb historical mystery: inventive, twisty, addictive and utterly beguiling. 'A glorious mash-up of William Golding and Arthur Conan Doyle' Val McDermid With Pipps imprisoned, only Arent and Sara can solve a mystery that stretches back into their past and now threatens to sink the ship, killing everybody on board… 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. Could a demon be responsible for their misfortunes? THE DEVIL AND THE DARK WATER Stuart Turton A murder on the high seas. 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. And then the passengers hear a terrible voice whispering to them in the darkness, promising them three unholy miracles. The extraordinary new novel from Stuart Turton, author of the best-selling The 7 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, winner of the Costa Best First Novel Award. Travelling with him is his loyal bodyguard, Arent Hayes, who is determined to prove his friend innocent, while also on board are Sara Wessel, a noble woman with a secret, and her husband, the governor general of Batavia.īut no sooner is their ship out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. ![]() ![]() It's 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported from the Dutch East Indies to Amsterdam, where he is facing trial and execution for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. ![]()
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