Author: Stuart Turton

Category: Mysteries

Regular price: $9.99

Deal price: $2.99

Deal starts: October 29, 2023

Deal ends: October 29, 2023

Description:

An Amazon Best Book of 2020!

"Compulsively York Times Book Review

From Stuart Turton, author of

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle,

comes an extraordinary new locked-room murder murder on the high seas. A remarkable detective duo. A demon who may or may not 1634, and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported to Amsterdam to be executed for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. Traveling with him is his loyal bodyguard, Arent Hayes, who is determined to prove his friend innocent. Among the other guests is Sara Wessel, a noblewoman with a no sooner is their ship out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. A strange symbol appears on the sail. A dead leper stalks the decks. Livestock dies in the then the passengers hear a terrible voice, whispering to them in the darkness, promising three unholy miracles, followed by a slaughter. First an impossible pursuit. Second an impossible theft. And third an impossible a demon be responsible for their misfortunes?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 Jackson meets Sherlock Holmes in this chilling thriller of supernatural horror, occult suspicion, and paranormal mystery on the high