The release date for the English version of 'The Devil and the Dark Water' by
Stuart Turton is Oct 2020. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A homicide on the open ocean. Two investigators. a potentially real or hypothetical demon.
The greatest investigator in history, Samuel Pipps, is being taken to Amsterdam in 1634 to be put to death for a crime he may or may not have committed. His faithful bodyguard, Arent Hayes, who is committed to proving his friend's innocence, is travelling with him.
However, as soon as they set sail, mischief starts to ruin their journey. A leper double-crossed prowls the decks. On the sails are strange symbols. The livestock is killed.
Then Samuel and the other three passengers are designated as dead.
Could their woes be attributable to a demon?
Now that Pipps is in jail, only Arent can unravel a secret that unites every traveller. A secret that reaches into their history and now poses a danger to bring down the ship and murder every passenger.
The amazing new book by Stuart Turton, the Costa Best First Novel Award-winning author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.