Ďábel a temné vody – Turton Stuart (2021)

The best book of 2020 on Amazon! An extraordinary new thriller by Stuart Turton, the author of the hugely successful mystery crime novel The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, which won the Costa Best First Novel Award for best debut. A murder on the open sea. A pair of remarkable detectives. A demon that may or may not exist. It is the year 1634, and Samuel Pipps, the greatest detective in the world, is imprisoned on a ship bound for Amsterdam, where he is to be executed for a crime he may or may not have committed. Traveling with him is his personal guard, Arent Hayes, determined to prove his friend's innocence. However, the eight-month voyage from Batavia to Amsterdam is marked from the very beginning by unpredictable devilish events. A twice-dead leper wanders the ship, strange symbols appear on the sails, and someone massacres all the livestock kept on board. Anyone could be guilty. Even the demon. Pipps sits locked in a dank cell, leaving Arent as the only one who can solve the mystery affecting every passenger on the ship. It is a secret that reaches deep into the past, threatening to send the ship to the bottom along with everyone on board. The Devil and the Dark Waters will delight all fans of Stephen King. It is...