The Long Water

Gripping literary mystery set in a remote Norwegian community

Stef Penney

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Quercus Publishing
08 October 2024

Crime & Mystery; Thriller & suspense

Author of the Costa-prizewinning, world-wide bestseller The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney, returns to her snow-covered heartland in this tense mystery set in a small Scandinavian town.

Nordland. A region in the Norwegian Arctic; a remote valley that stretches from the sea up to the mountains and glaciers.

It is May in what was once a prosperous mining community.

The snows are nearly gone and it's a time of spring and school-leavers' celebrations - until Daniel, a popular teenage boy, goes missing. Conflicting stories circulate among his friends, of parties and wild behaviour.

As the search for Daniel widens, the police open a disused mine in the mountains.

They find human remains, but this body has been there for decades, its identity a mystery.

Everyone in this tight knit, isolated community is touched by these events: misanthropic Svea, whose long life in the area stretches back to the heyday of the mines, and beyond. She has cut all ties with her family, except for her granddaughter, Elin, an outsider like her grandmother. Elin and her friend Benny, both impacted by Daniel while he was alive, become entangled in the hunt for answers, while Svea has deep, dark secrets of her own.

By: Stef Penney
Imprint: Quercus Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 300mm, Width: 232mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 940g
ISBN: 9781529425673
ISBN 10: 1529425670
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 08 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Stef Penney grew up in Edinburgh. She is the author of the international bestseller, The Tenderness of Wolves, winner of the overall Costa Award; The Invisible Ones; Under a Pole Star, shortlisted for the Costa, and the historical epic, The Beasts of Paris. Stef lives in London, E.8.

Reviews for The Long Water: Gripping literary mystery set in a remote Norwegian community

With The Long Water, Stef Penney takes crime writing to another level. Gripping and emotionally intelligent, this is a novel for our times * S. G. MacLean, author of THE BOOKSELLER OF INVERNESS *