Book Description | The Devil and Dark Waters By Stuart Turton ... In 1634, Samuel Pepys, the world's greatest detective, is to be transported to Amsterdam to be executed for a crime no one knows whether he committed or not. Along with him is his loyal bodyguard, Arent Hayes, who is determined to prove his friend's innocence. As soon as the ship carrying Samuel sets sail, a series of strange events begin, so mysterious that they can be attributed to the devil! Inevitably, no one could have done all this except the devil himself. A person dies twice, a strange symbol appears on the sail, the cattle all die suddenly, and the passengers are marked with signs of death. With his friend imprisoned, Arent has no choice but to take on the task of solving the mystery whose threads intertwine with the passage of time, a mystery in which the passengers' past and present intertwine, and threaten to sink the ship and kill all its passengers. |