by Kerstin Ekman · Doubleday · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099521211
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«Blackwater» is the mystery novel by Kerstin Ekman, published by Doubleday in hardback (448 pages, in English).
In 1974, Annie Raft arrives with her six-year-old daughter at the remote Swedish village of Blackwater to join her lover in a commune, but the reunion goes wrong when two corpses are found in the woods. Nearly twenty years later, the past returns when Annie thinks she recognises the killer in her daughter's arms. A novel combining rural suspense and social portrait.
Originally published as «Händelser vid vatten» (1993), translated from Swedish by Joan Tate and winner of the Augustpriset, the Swedish Academy's Crime Novel Award and the Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Recommended for readers of Scandinavian crime fiction and literary thrillers set in rural environments.
Kerstin Lillemor Ekman is a Swedish novelist.
