Agent: Harry Illingworth, DHH Literary Agency. He brings his wife, Sara, and a motley crew with him in his cramped galleon, as well as a mysterious object, The Folly.

Bloomsbury The Dutch East India Company has called the governor general of Batavia (present day Jakarta) back to Amsterdam. Fans of impossible crime fiction won’t want to miss this one. The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton. As Turton ratchets up the tension en route to the brilliant resolution of the plot, he keeps readers in doubt as to whether a rational explanation is possible. The puzzles only continue once the vessel sets sail, including a locked-room murder, the reappearance of the dead leper, and a ghost ship dogging the Saardam. 6, 2020 After an outbreak of ghastly events aboard the Saardam, a merchant vessel returning from the East Indies to Amsterdam in 1634, fear spreads that an evil spirit is responsible. Hayes and another passenger, the governor-general’s wife, rush to help the dying man, only to find that his tongue had been cut out, making any speech impossible. THE DEVIL AND THE DARK WATER by Stuart Turton RELEASE DATE: Oct.

As the grim figure, who appears to have leprosy, prophesies that the ship won’t reach its destination, his clothing bursts into flame. From the dock, a bloody man issues a dire warning to the Saardam’s crew and passengers. Stuart Turton (Goodreads Author) Dave s review really liked it. Set in 1634, this outstanding whodunit from Turton ( The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle) opens in Batavia, where celebrated investigator Samuel Pipps, who was working in the Dutch East Indies until his arrest for an unknown reason, is about to be transported to Amsterdam aboard the Saardam, along with his longtime sidekick, Arent Hayes.

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