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Blackwater
  • Published: 5 July 1996
  • ISBN: 9780099521211
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $27.99
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Blackwater

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30 June 2011
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5 July 1996
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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...
  • Published: 5 July 1996
  • ISBN: 9780099521211
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $27.99
Categories:

About the author

Kerstin Ekman

Kerstin Ekman was born in 1933 and is one of Sweden's most prominent novelists. The author of the international bestseller Blackwater, which has been sold in 23 countries, she is renowned both for her detective novels and her more literary works. She has written seventeen novels which have been translated into many languages and won numerous prizes and awards. She used to be one of the eighteen members of the Swedish Academy of Arts and Letters, but resigned when the Academy failed to make an official statement of support for Salman Rushdie. Kerstin Ekman lives in Vjalsjöbyn, a small village in the north of Sweden.
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Praise for Blackwater

[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