Sean Townsend, a native of the town and the son, as it happens, of a woman who was drowned in the pool when he was a boy. Hidden deeds and nameless anxieties beset Jules Katie’s brother, Josh a teacher, Mark Henderson and a police officer who is investigating Nel’s death. Katie and Lena are only two of the many characters who are tormented by unrevealed missteps, traumas and crimes from the past. Lena believes this desperate act was her fault because she told someone about Katie’s clandestine doings and the wretched girl thought only her own death could protect a loved one from scandal and worse. Lena, it emerges, is suffering from grief and guilt over her best friend, Katie, who, only a few months ago, killed herself by throwing herself into the infamous pool. It is an eerie place whose awful depths have taken the lives of a number of women over the years - by force or by suicide.īy clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy. The story is set in Beckford, a little town in the north of England through which a river runs, making a bend to create what the residents refer to as the Drowning Pool. Now she gives us “Into the Water,” another psychological thriller, though one with a very different M.O. With real narrative adeptness, Hawkins drove the reader to assess and reassess her characters and their reliability for hundreds of pages through a plot that executed as many diabolic reverses as nightmare.
It was told from the points of view of three not entirely sympathetic women: a needy alcoholic who has suffered plot-crucial blackouts, a woman who has supplanted the first in her husband’s life (and house), and a soon-to-be murdered woman for whom our alcoholic has spun an imaginary life story. Paula Hawkins’ last novel, the mega-bestseller “Girl on the Train,” may have had a few improbabilities, but it was a first-class psychological thriller.
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