“Mother’s Day is coming up. This one’s perfect for the mom who always has shelf space for thrillers.” -theSkimm “Thrilling… we kept guessing until the sobering conclusion.” - O Magazine “Addicting… this novel has a little something for anyone looking for their next binge-read.” - Marie Claire And a noirish beach read that might make you think twice about dipping a toe in those dark, chilly waters.” - USA Today “ succulent new mystery… Hawkins, influenced by Hitchcock, has a cinematic eye and an ear for eerie, evocative language… So do dive in. Hawkins, who tells a complex narrative… in a chronicle whose final pages yield startling revelations.” - The Wall Street Journal

“Highly suspenseful… all these intrigues are teased out with impressive skill by Ms. “A captivating contemporary whodunit… suspense churns and the plot keeps you guessing.” -People Magazine 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.īeware a calm surface-you never know what lies beneath. 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. A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town.

Into the water paula