A review by afox98
Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

3.0

3 stars for the first half of the book, 3 1/2 stars for the second half. First half was pretty meandering, and things started to pick up in the second half. The town of Beckford has a river, and the river has a bend that several women have died in through the decades. A local, Nel Abbott, has been writing about their tragic deaths and is learning things aren’t what they seemed with some of the deaths when she too is found in it. Her estranged sister Jules returns to town after many years to look after her niece and realizes there’s an undercurrent to the people in the town that’s dark and secretive. There were a lot of sub-plots that could have been reduced and a lot of unlikely leaps in reality, but a suspenseful read nonetheless.