The author of the number-one New York Times best seller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train returns with Into the Water, her addictive new novel of psychological suspense.
“Hawkins is at the forefront of a group of female authors – think Gillian Flynn and Megan Abbott – who have reinvigorated the literary suspense novel by tapping a rich vein of psychological menace and social unease…there’s a certain solace to a dark escape, in the promise of submerged truths coming to light.” (Vogue)
A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged.
Left behind is a lonely 15-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother’s sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from – a place to which she vowed she’d never return.
With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of fans around the world in her explosive debut thriller, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, twisting, deeply satisfying story that hinges on the deceptiveness of emotion and memory as well as the devastating ways that the past can reach a long arm into the present.
Beware a calm surface – you never know what lies beneath.
Thank you for Girl on a Train…. Unfortunately this book had me rolling my eyes, cringing and laughing out loud in places. I’m surprised it made it to print in this state. Told from ten perspectives, all two dimensional, unlikeable and identical (except for the odd bit of swearing from a couple of characters), countless pages which should have been cut and clunky narrative devices. A huge disappointment.
Good read if u have insomnia Waited for months for the release and was excited to finally read it. BORING! I so want to like it and force myself to read it to the end. It’s nothing like the first book.
Confusing I’m about 3/4 of the way through this and am having trouble keeping up with all the characters, past and present.It is not a book that I anxiously wait to read each day. Plan to finish it, and hope the ending makes it worthwhile.