![]() ![]() Among the creeps with possible motives are Patrick Townsend, a retired cop whose wife died years earlier at the Drowning Pool Patrick’s son, Sean, who has inherited his old man’s profession and perhaps predilections and Mark Henderson, a handsome high-school teacher who takes Lolita a little too literally. Like Girl on the Train, this is a story disturbingly rife with misogyny and violence against women. Left behind is Nel’s hostile 15-year-old daughter, Lena, whose best friend, Katie Whittaker, committed suicide at the same place just weeks earlier. Did Nel, a photographer and writer who was investigating the Drowning Pool’s many female victims (including 17th-century “witches”), jump or slip from the cliff above? Was she pushed? ![]() The novel begins with Jules (Julia) Abbott being summoned back to Beckford after her estranged sister, Nel, is found dead in the “Drowning Pool,” as the infamous bend in the town’s river is called. There’s a primeval sense of threat, of evil and deception running through the pages so that every character feels like an unreliable narrator and truth is difficult to grasp. Reading it is akin to being in an eddying whirlpool where you hardly know which way is up. ![]() The various plot currents eventually converge, and when they do Into the Water takes off with a rush. Into the Water is an absolute maelstrom of a book. Into the Water by Paula Hawkins. ![]()
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