Our series celebrating mystery/thriller authors and their books returns this month with a guest from overseas! Stuart Turton, whose debut novel The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle was a smash hit, is once again making waves with a historical thriller set at sea. 

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About Stuart Turton:
Stuart Turton is a freelance journalist who lives in West London with his wife. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle was his first novel and received the Costa Best First Novel Award.

About The Devil and the Dark Water:
A murder on the high seas. A remarkable 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. Anyone could be to blame. Even a demon.

And then three passengers are marked for death, including Samuel.

With Pipps imprisoned, only Arent can solve a mystery that connects every passenger. A mystery that stretches back into their past and now threatens to sink the ship, killing everybody on board.

For fans of Steven King, The Devil and the Dark Water brings a chilling new spin to the Sherlock Holmes detective duo in a thriller of supernatural horror, occult suspicion, and paranormal mystery on the high seas.

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