Into the Water
A Novel
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3.8 • 211 Ratings
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- $5.99
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Publisher Description
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train returns with Into the Water, her addictive new novel of psychological suspense.
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 fifteen-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 readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, twisting, deeply satisfying read 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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
After the runaway success of The Girl on the Train, it probably wasn’t easy for Paula Hawkins to release a new book into the world. Thankfully, Into the Water not only delivers another suspenseful and chilling thriller but reveals more of Hawkins’ storytelling strengths. The novel takes place in the eerie and isolated English village of Beckford, where throughout history local women have drowned in the river that snakes through town. Almost everyone is guilty of something—figuring out how is chilling entertainment.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jules Abbott, the heroine of bestseller Hawkins's twisty second psychological thriller, vowed never to return to the sleepy English town of Beckford after an incident when she was a teenager drove a wedge between her and her older sister, Nel. But now Nel, a writer and photographer, is the latest in a long string of women found dead in a part of the local river known as the Drowning Pool. As Nel put it, "Beckford is not a suicide spot. Beckford is a place to get rid of troublesome women." Before Nel's death, the best friend of her surly 15-year-old daughter, Lena, drowned herself, an act that had a profound effect on both Nel and Lena. Beckford history is dripping with women who've thrown themselves or been pushed? off the cliffs into the Drowning Pool, and everyone from the police detective, plagued by his own demons, working the case to the new cop in town with something to prove knows more than they're letting on. Hawkins (The Girl on the Train) may be juggling a few too many story lines for comfort, but the payoff packs a satisfying punch. Author tour.
Customer Reviews
Certainly not Girl on the Train quality
Too many things going on at once and too many things left hanging to the point that you cannot even answer them yourself, not nearly as good as Girl on the Train
Wonderful read!
I loved this as much as I loved Girl on the Train. The various narratives made for an interesting and thoughtful read. Well done!
So boring and confusing
So many people to keep track of.. such a slow read... it feels so repetitive ..such a boring read.. dont waste ur time any money