

Using a concept of transitioning between each character thoughts and actions, Hawkins’ readers follow the characters past and current thoughts throughout the storyline. Hawkins’ storyline grabs her readers’ attention describing the history of a woman drowning in a body of water known as “The Drowning Pool.” The author tells her psychological thriller by sharing the thoughts and actions of the residents of Beckford, England. Paula Hawkins is still writing like Alfred Hitchcock in her new book INTO THE WATER. Beware a calm surface-you never know what lies beneath. 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. 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.

Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. 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. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. Genre: Psychological Mystery – Thriller – SuspenseĪ single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town.
