Kate’s 2¢: “The devil and the dark water: by Stuart Turton

“The devil and the dark water: by Stuart Turton

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   It was interesting to find out how this rein of terror came about. I had some trouble keeping all the characters straight, but most of them were a bloody mess before the end anyway, so it didn’t matter.

   I like the story with its surprise ending.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Turton was born 1980, and raised[2] in Widnes, England and educated at The University of Liverpool, where he received a BA (Hons) in English and Philosophy. After graduating, he spent a year working as a teacher in Shanghai,[3] before becoming a technology journalist in London. He moved to Dubai to become a travel journalist, living there for three years until he returned to London to write his first novel.

Career[edit]

Turton’s debut novel, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (released in the US as The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle[4]) won the First Novel Award at the 2018 Costa Book Awards[5] and has sold in 28 languages.[6] Since publication, it has sold over 200,000 copies[7] in the UK. In an interview given to The Guardian, he described writing the book as “just awful”.[8]

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle received a number of other accolades. It won Best Novel in the 2018 Books Are My Bag Readers’ Awards.[9] That same year, it was shortlisted for a New Writers’ Award at the Specsavers National Book Awards,[10] Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards,[11] and longlisted for a New Blood Dagger and Gold Dagger at the Crime Writers’ Association Awards.[12]

Val McDermid selected Turton to appear on her New Blood panel at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival.[13] In 2019, it was shortlisted for Best Debut Novel at the Strand Magazine Critics Awards[14] and longlisted for the Glass Bell Award.[15]

In October 2020 Turton’s second novel was published, The Devil and the Dark Water.[16] It won the 2020 Books Are My Bag Fiction Award,[17] and was shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Dagger[18] at the Crime Writers’ Association Awards. It was Waterstones Thriller of the Month,[19] and selected for Between the Covers, a seven-part book TV programme on BBC Two hosted by Sara Cox.[20] It has sold in 20 countries.[21]

In December 2020 it was announced that Netflix had bought the rights to a seven-part series adaptation of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, produced by House Productions, and to be created and written by Sophie Petzal. In April 2021, The Devil and the Dark Water was optioned for television by Urban Myth. It will be written by Howard Overman, with Turton serving as an executive producer on the project.[22]

In November 2020, Turton signed a contract to write[23] two more “high-concept” mystery novels for Bloomsbury. He’s described them as “nuts”.

The devil and the dark water DB101100

Turton, Stuart Reading time: 17 hours, 3 minutes.

James Cameron Stewart

Historical Fiction

Mystery and Detective Stories

In 1634, detective Samuel Pipps is being transported to Amsterdam to be executed for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. Accompanying him is his loyal bodyguard. But devilry blights the voyage. A twice-dead leper stalks the decks. Livestock is slaughtered. And then three passengers are marked for death, including Samuel. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020.

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