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INTO THE WATER by Paula Hawkins
After a woman turns up dead in the Drowning Pool she is obsessed with in her small town, previous suicides are investigated and the truth begins to come out. Multiple points-of-view, changes in time period, and the large cast of characters make it harder to get into than her debut novel (and it was difficult to understand the surly attitude of the teen daughter after her mother died), but the story is dark enough to be interesting. The small town setting is a good angle for this book where everyone knows everyone else's history and business, and the various conclusions to the deaths are all plausible for a mystery novel. An addition to the genre that will be popular even if not as well received as her addicting first book. (Riverhead Books, 2017)
After a woman turns up dead in the Drowning Pool she is obsessed with in her small town, previous suicides are investigated and the truth begins to come out. Multiple points-of-view, changes in time period, and the large cast of characters make it harder to get into than her debut novel (and it was difficult to understand the surly attitude of the teen daughter after her mother died), but the story is dark enough to be interesting. The small town setting is a good angle for this book where everyone knows everyone else's history and business, and the various conclusions to the deaths are all plausible for a mystery novel. An addition to the genre that will be popular even if not as well received as her addicting first book. (Riverhead Books, 2017)