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THE DEVIL AND THE DARK WATER
by Stuart Turton (Raven £8.99, 574pp)
Stuart Turton won a Costa First Novel award for his genre-busting debut, The Seven Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle.
His second novel is an equally vibrant mix of history, fantasy and detective fiction, set in 1634 aboard the Saardam, a ship transporting a colonial governor of the Dutch East India company to Amsterdam.
Also aboard the ship is Samuel Pipps, a famous detective who helped the governor recover a mysterious scientific object but is now chained in a tiny cell, and Pipps’s bodyguard, Arent Hayes, as huge and ugly as Pipps is small and handsome.
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Carlisle based crime fiction author Mike Craven pictured in Dalston. Mike s latest book The Curator features Dalston as a location for part of the story The 2021 Crime Writers Association (CWA) Dagger awards longlists have been revealed (see below for full listings) with J K Rowling, Ian Rankin, John Banville and Stuart Turton among the authors chosen. For the Gold Dagger, which is awarded for the crime novel of the year, 2019 winner M W Craven, returns with The Curator (Constable). Mike Craven from Carlisle is no stranger to being longlisted. This is latest in the Washing Poe series to be included in the longlist.