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Caro Ramsay was born in Glasgow and now lives in a village on the west coast of Scotland. Dark Water is her third novel in the Anderson and Costello series, following the critically acclaimed Singing to the Dead and Absolution, which was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association’s New Blood Dagger for best début of the year.
Praise for Caro Ramsay
‘A cracker of a debut … Many shivers in store for readers, followed by a shattering climax’ The Times
‘Ramsay handles her characters with aplomb, the dialogue crackles and the search for the killer has surprising twists and turns. A most auspicious debut’ Observer
‘Undoubtedly one of the most impressive début novels in the field in some time’ Barry Forshaw, Amazon
‘Among the year’s best literary thrillers’ Washington Post
‘Edgy, fast-paced, this crime thriller is a cleverly understated page-turner … Deliciously dark, this well-written début will leave you wanting more’ Woman
‘Glasgow comes alive in Caro Ramsay’s dark, vivid and daring thriller’ Val McDermid
‘A cracking début [4 stars]’ Mirror
‘A very sophisticated first novel … at once humane, horrifying and exciting’ Literary Review
‘A classy example of the genre’ London Paper
‘Intelligent, unpredictable and hard to put down’ Sainsbury’s Magazine
‘A thrilling crime read’ Daily Telegraph, Sydney
‘With her first novel, Caro Ramsay makes an impressive contribution to the growing ranks of Scottish crime writers’ Shots-Mag
‘[Ramsay] is able to write scenes of heartbreaking tenderness nestled amid evocations of such grotesque violence that it is difficult to imagine that they can coexist as such sublime interlocking pieces of the whole … Absolution marks the beginning of what certainly will be a major career’ New York Sun
‘Proves [that Ramsay] deserves to inhabit the same orbit of Scottish thriller talent as Rankin, McDermid, MacBride and Mina’ Daily Record