Critical Praise

" Mesmerizing . . . Like Smilla's Sense of Snow, it is beautifully written, absorbing and accessible. It makes you hold your breath. "-Newsday"Wonderfully . . .powerfully enigmatic . . . extremely "intelligent . . . Blackwater works so brilliantly both as a mystery"and an evocation an unfamiliar word. "-Richard Berstein The New York Times"A rich adventure, the kind of long, lush, thoughtful page-turner many of us crave but rarely get our hands on. "-Beverly Lowry, The New York Times Book Review"Thrilling . . . a superbly written and atmospherically engaging crime novel. "-Sven Birkerts The Washington Post Book Review"Striking . . . Graham Greene meets Dean Koontz. "-Entertainment Weekly"Never uninvolving . . . keeps us guessing . . . Ekman tosses out conventional plot mechanics and stuns us with unexpected tragedy and twist after twist. "-Peter Handel, San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle

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