The Girl on the Train Author Paula Hawkins Will Publish New Suspense Story in 2017
Paula Hawkins, the British author who wrote the best seller The Girl on the Train, will publish her next book on May 2 via Riverhead Books. Called Into the Water, Hawkins' next endeavor will tell a suspense story of murder in a riverside town, diving into family secrets and "the slipperiness of truth." The description reads "When a single mother and a teenage girl each turn up dead at the bottom of the river, just weeks apart, the ensuing investigation dredges up a complicated history.", "This story has been brewing for a good while," Hawkins said in a statement. "For me there is something irresistible about the stories we tell ourselves, the way voices and truths can be hidden consciously or unconsciously, memories can be washed away and whole histories submerged.", Sarah McGrath, Hawkins' editor in the U.S. said in a statement "Just as The Girl on the Train explored voyeurism and self-perception, so does Into the Water interrogate the deceitfulness of memory and all the dangerous ways that the past can reach a long arm into the present and future."