Blackwater

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Macmillan, Dec 15, 1996 - Fiction - 434 pages

On Midsummer's Eve, 1974, Annie Raft arrives with her daughter Mia in the remote Swedish village of Blackwater to join her lover Dan on a nearby commune. On her journey through the deep forest, she sumbles upon the site of a grisly double murder--a crime that will remain unsolved for nearly twenty years, until the day Annie sees her grown daughter in the arms of one man she glimpsed in the forest that eerie midsummer night.

Like Gorky Park and Smilla's Sense of Snow, Blackwater is a unique trhiller in which the hearts and minds of the characters are as strikingly compelling as the exotic northern landscape that envelops them.

 

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Contents

Chapter 1
3
Chapter 2
11
Chapter 3
17
Chapter 4
22
Chapter 5
27
Chapter 6
32
Chapter 7
34
Chapter 8
40
Chapter 40
225
Chapter 41
231
Chapter 42
238
Chapter 43
249
Chapter 44
261
Chapter 45
263
Chapter 46
266
Part 2
277

Chapter 9
48
Chapter 10
51
Chapter 11
52
Chapter 12
56
Chapter 13
61
Chapter 14
63
Chapter 15
66
Chapter 16
74
Chapter 17
77
Chapter 18
84
Chapter 19
87
Chapter 20
98
Chapter 21
102
Chapter 22
106
Chapter 23
111
Chapter 24
113
Chapter 25
117
Chapter 26
119
Chapter 27
133
Chapter 28
149
Chapter 29
162
Chapter 30
166
Chapter 31
169
Chapter 32
177
Chapter 33
181
Chapter 34
189
Chapter 35
199
Chapter 36
206
Chapter 37
213
Chapter 38
215
Chapter 39
219
Chapter 47
279
Chapter 48
292
Chapter 49
299
Chapter 50
301
Chapter 51
305
Chapter 52
312
Chapter 53
314
Chapter 54
325
Chapter 55
326
Chapter 56
332
Chapter 57
334
Chapter 58
343
Chapter 59
345
Chapter 60
349
Chapter 61
361
Chapter 62
364
Chapter 63
373
Chapter 64
379
Chapter 65
383
Chapter 66
387
Chapter 67
395
Chapter 68
398
Chapter 69
403
Chapter 70
410
Chapter 71
416
Chapter 72
421
Chapter 73
423
Chapter 74
427
Chapter 75
428
Chapter 76
432
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About the author (1996)

Kerstin Ekman is the author of seventeen novels that have been published in Scandinavia and Europe. Blackwater--her first novel published in English--received the Swedish Crime Academy's Award for best crime novel, the August Prize, and the Nordic Council's Literary Prize. She lives in Valsjobyn, a small village in northern Sweden.

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