Into the Water: A Novel

Paula Hawkins

May 2017 · Sold by Penguin

About this eBook

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER

An addictive novel of psychological suspense from the author of #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train and A Slow Fire Burning.

“Hawkins is at the forefront of a group of female authors . . 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 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.

Ratings and reviews

What on earth is this mess? Got to chapter 4 before giving up and researching more reviews to uncover the masses of people who were unfortunate enough to have battled through to the end, only to regret not listening to their instinct to give up very early on. Happy to put this down as a bad purchase and move on.

I kept thinking the book would get better and it never did. It repeats constantly and gets very old after a while. I thought there would be so much more to the mystery of this river but there wasn't. Absolute let down.

This book took me a little bit to get into it, but hooked me once I did. Great, unique story with a really good ending. So far this author has me ready to read whatever she puts out!

About the author

Paula Hawkins is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Girl on the Train, which was made into a major motion picture.