After reading the authors notes at the end of the book I find out that the story is loosely based on a ship from Australia where some of the events from the book had happened. There was no need for this scene, It was grotesques and unnecessary.
The character suggesting it is clearly "the bad guy" so if this scene was introduced to convince the audience that we shouldn't root for this man it was already obvious.
Not to give too much away but I found it quite sickening when all of a sudden the main character is convinced by a man who is clearly "the bad guy" to enforce prostitution and gang rape of the female passengers. I also found moments quite unnecessarily brutal. The narrator is good but the story is dull and to my horror after waiting for 15 hours for the denouement of the story the ending was awful! I love mystery books and films because I love trying to work out the puzzle, but as things were being explained as to how to murders were committed, it became clear to me that there was no way for a reader to have guessed the outcome, it was just a "haha don't you feel stupid for not thinking of this" and I was like "not really as I didn't get the whole view of the story" key details of the murders were missed out so the audience would have no grasp on what or how things were being done. After a few hours of listening I was a bit disappointed, Nothing had gripped me, It was a Sherlock Holmes book set on a boat where Watson does the detecting, But I persevered. I loved seven deaths! It's honestly one of my favourite books, I loved the mix of Agatha Christie style murders and groundhog day! So when I heard Mr Turton has written another book I was so excited.
With Pipps imprisoned, only Arent and Sara can solve a mystery that stretches back into their past and now threatens to sink the ship, killing everybody on board.įrom the author of the dazzling The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, winner of the Costa Best First Novel Award, comes an audacious and original new high concept murder mystery. Could a demon be responsible for their misfortunes? And then the passengers hear a terrible voice whispering to them in the darkness, promising them three unholy miracles. Travelling with him is his loyal bodyguard, Arent Hayes, who is determined to prove his friend innocent, while also on board are Sara Wessel, a noble woman with a secret, and her husband, the governor general of Batavia.īut no sooner is their ship out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. It’s 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world’s greatest detective, is being transported from the Dutch East Indies to Amsterdam, where he is facing trial and execution for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. Shortlisted for The Books Are My Bag Fiction Award. Selected for the BBC Two Book Club Between the Covers and the Radio 2 Jo Whiley Book Club. Bloomsbury presents The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt.
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