We are thrown straight into the action with the death of Nell Abbott, she’s found in the aptly named Drowning Pool, in the town of Beckford. To say I was gripped is an understatement… I mean I was GRIPPED! Like ignore the baby gripped (not really ’cause a baby is hard to ignore but you get the picture!) I was dubious as to whether ‘Into The Water’ would be able to live up to it predecessor… I needn’t have worried, it does! I eared on the side of caution when I started reading ‘Into The Water’, after the juggernaut that was ‘The Girl On The Train’, Paula Hawkins faced what I’m sure must have been the ginormous task of bringing us a second novel. 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.
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