![]() ![]() ‘It’s a horrific story, but within it are all these other amazing stories,’ Turton says, in the essay printed in the advanced reading copy of The Devil and the Dark Water. ‘One of the soldiers on board led this heroic resistance. Not only did the survivors have to deal with the physical challenge of being wrecked on a tiny island, but they also had to deal with a tyrannical officer that assumed control and committed a number of violent atrocities before they were all eventually rescued. While he was there, he visited the Maritime Museum on the west coast and discovered the wreckage of The Batavia, a merchant vessel wrecked on a coral island in the 1600s. The origin of Turton’s second novel, The Devil and the Dark Water, goes back to the early 2000s, when he missed a flight to Singapore and ended up stranded in Australia. It was golden age crime within a mind-bending plot its complexity and playfulness delighted readers across the world. ![]() Ambiguous and sprawling, Turton’s first novel mixed Agatha Christie and Christopher Nolan. Seven Deaths won the Costa First Novel of the Year Award in 2018, was shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2019 and was Waterstones’ Thriller of the Month for October 2018 – it was a big deal. ![]() Stuart Turton’s second novel, The Devil and the Dark Water, sails into bookshops in October this year, in the wake of his triumphant debut The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. ![]()
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