Blackwater

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'A magnificent and truly terrifying thriller' Image Startling in its revelations, disturbing in its implications - a thriller of gripping intensity and immense literary power. Two violent deaths in the Swedish wilderness; the hurried flight of a sinister stranger- terrible events long buried in Annie Raft's memory - until she sees her daughter in the arms of the man she believes responsible for the killings...

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[A] rich adventure, the kind of long, lush, thoughtful page-turner many of us crave but rarely get our hands on -- Beverly Lowry * New York Times *
The best novel I've read this year -- Rose Tremain * Independent *
A powerful, atavistic book...full of threat and mystery. Wonderful strong stuff * Lisa Cody *

Author Bio

Kerstin Ekman is one of Sweden's most prominent novelists. She was born in 1933 in Risinge, a small village in the middle of Sweden. She has written many novels which have been widely published in other Scandinavian languages, German, Finnish, Dutch and French, and have won numerous prizes and awards. She became a member of the Swedish Academy of Arts and Letters in 1978, but resigned in 1989 when the Academy did not make a statement that she could approve of about the Rushdie case. Blackwater has been awarded the Swedish Crime Academy's Award for the best crime novel, the August Prize, and the Nordic Council's Literary Prize.