- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; (Reissue) edition (30 May 2010)
- ISBN-10: 0007385013
- ISBN-13: 978-0007385010
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 5.8 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,717,979 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for Bleak Water:
‘Sinister… Ms Reah holds the threads of her sometimes complicated plot together skilfully and she has a good ear for dialogue’ Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph
Praise for Silent Playgrounds:
‘Suspense scrupulously assembled; excitements dovetail with themes of genuine concern; characterization … generously and sympathetically drawn. Outskirts of Sheffield setting; welcome freshness of locale and theme. Reah’s second novel is seriously good’ Literary Review
‘With its strong atmosphere, well-contrived narrative and topical concerns, Silent Playgrounds is a superior thriller’ Patricia Craig, TLS
‘This is a complex psychological thriller. Reah is skilled at splicing domestic life with the menace of fears and at creating characters who are vulnerable, intelligent and humane’ Manchester Evening News
Praise for Only Darkness:
‘Menacing, highly atmospheric thriller … Scary stuff given an extra boost by dark and persuasive psychology in a chilly provincial setting where horrible things happen which freeze your blood’ Literary Review
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Disturbing, atmospheric suspense novel from the author of Only Darkness, Silent Playgrounds and Night Angels:
‘Dark, edgy and compelling’ The Times
Beyond the new city centre developments, the old Sheffield canal is overgrown, run-down and deserted. Signs of regeneration creep along its towpaths, including a small, innovative gallery housed in one of the warehouses. But between the renovations it’s a dark and lonely place – the perfect site for an exhibition reworking Brueghel’s The Triumph of Death.
For Elisa Eliot, the curator, the chance to show well-known artist Daniel Flynn’s work at the gallery is a coup. But when a young woman’s body is found in the canal, Flynn’s nightmare images begin to spill out into the real world. Still affected by the murder of her friend’s daughter four years earlier, Eliza is drawn deep into the violence that seems to surround the gallery. Is this the work of a psychopath or is there a link between present horrors and the tragedy of four years before?
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Superior crime fiction. Bleak and gripping, with a distinctly northern feel - highly recommended!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is only my second Reah book - after Silent Playgrounds. With Silent Playgrounds I though I had found an author whose style, inventive and characters I liked to form part of my reading matter. Bleak Water has only confirmed my original feelings.
This book convines the traits of a mild city-horror-story with those of a psychological thriller. Without giving unnecessary details or descriptions it provides us as good an undestanding as we can possibly need of any of the main characters, who we chose to like or dislike accordingly. The setting is very clearly outlined so we can easily imagine the location for the events narrated in the novel. Bleak Water allows the reader enough insight to let us believe we have all the answers only to give us a couple of surprises along the way.
It is not an easy read in as much as it requires the reader's attention, but once you provide that, you will not want to put it down.
I would not want to pretend it is the best book I have ever read but it most definitely is the best in a while. I will be cheking other Reah works in the very near future.
This book convines the traits of a mild city-horror-story with those of a psychological thriller. Without giving unnecessary details or descriptions it provides us as good an undestanding as we can possibly need of any of the main characters, who we chose to like or dislike accordingly. The setting is very clearly outlined so we can easily imagine the location for the events narrated in the novel. Bleak Water allows the reader enough insight to let us believe we have all the answers only to give us a couple of surprises along the way.
It is not an easy read in as much as it requires the reader's attention, but once you provide that, you will not want to put it down.
I would not want to pretend it is the best book I have ever read but it most definitely is the best in a while. I will be cheking other Reah works in the very near future.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Perhaps Danuta Reah has an artistic background? Certainly the way she brings the Breugel painting (Truimph of Death) to life, ties in parallels with the bleak urban landscape of Sheffield and incorporates a modern exhibition, suggests she knows her way round the art world.
Eliza lands a job in a modern art gallery - as she supposes, on merit - and becomes entangled in a modern murder mystery, whose solution lies in a murder mystery from years ago - she knew the child then : she is acquainted with the first victim this time round but she does not make any connections immediately.
The two main police characters, Tina Barraclough and Ray Farnham, are complex and flawed and the tension generated between them when Barraclough slips from the professional standard expected by Farnham adds interest to the police procedural sections.
Danuta Reah deserves more recognition : she is literate, her plotting is tight and her characters live on the page. Hopefully, we will see more of her in the future.
Eliza lands a job in a modern art gallery - as she supposes, on merit - and becomes entangled in a modern murder mystery, whose solution lies in a murder mystery from years ago - she knew the child then : she is acquainted with the first victim this time round but she does not make any connections immediately.
The two main police characters, Tina Barraclough and Ray Farnham, are complex and flawed and the tension generated between them when Barraclough slips from the professional standard expected by Farnham adds interest to the police procedural sections.
Danuta Reah deserves more recognition : she is literate, her plotting is tight and her characters live on the page. Hopefully, we will see more of her in the future.
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NOT THE BEST IN FICTION !
I was disappointed, this seems a very amaterish book of fiction.
Page 32.
The pathologist states " This girl had a baby not so long ago "
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Page 32.
The pathologist states " This girl had a baby not so long ago "
How did he know ? Read more
Published 12 months ago by D
This is a tense, suspenseful novel
The bleak water of the title is the canal basin of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation - bleak indeed, a typical landscape of industrial decay. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Mr Creepy
Dark, taut and atmospheric
Danuta Reah's latest book is her best yet. It is a dark and disturbing story set on an old industrial canal. Read more
Published on 9 Jun 2002
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