这条河，不只收留生无可恋的绝望者
它还吞噬那些，惹来太多麻烦的女人
一个知道太多的摄影作家，一名外遇的家庭主妇，一位开朗亮丽的女学生，还有百年前被村民以巫术之名处死的少女，她们都葬身在这条河。
但是秘密 并没有随着她们沉入水底
在贝克福有一条河，是平静小镇生活中，大家休闲的去处。但河域有个林中地点，就像青木原树海，似乎吸引着许多寻短的人。颇具知名度的摄影记者丹妮尔在这里长大，从小就深深受到这个特殊地点吸引，特别是那些自杀的女人。这几年她开始写一本书，记录这条河的历史，以及围绕着这条河的神秘事件。她拍了许多照片，查询官方记录，访问居民，但书还没有完成，她就死在这条河里。所有证据都显示没有他杀迹象，但，她真的是自尽吗？
小说从每一个死者家属的自白越走越深，失去爱女的母亲，丧母的警探，摄影记者疏离多年的妹妹...他们是背负无尽哀伤的幸存者-「说不出口是自杀」-但更无法面对的是内心的罪咎，那些不论好坏再也无法继续的关系，再不能回嘴或平反，永远结不了案的遗憾。这些投河自尽的女人留下了许多疑问，然而是家人无法接受事实，还是她们的死另有隐情？
作为《The Girl on theTrain》作者的新作《Into the Water》，最让人着迷又意犹未尽的，就是作者特别擅长挖掘人们内心隐密的羞耻(想想列车上的女孩中，瑞秋酗酒的心理刻划)，压抑不了的嫉妒，爱与恨同样强烈的关系，和紧紧缠缚无法摆脱的罪咎重量。世俗又真实，精彩而具说服力，是今年初夏值得推荐的心理惊悚小说！
Into The Water
PH201701
by Paula Hawkins
Publisher: Riverhead Books (May 2, 2017)
“Hawkins is at the forefront of a group of female authors – think Gillian Flynn and Megan Abbott – who have reinvigorated the literary suspense novel by tapping a rich vein of psychological menace and social unease… there’s a certain solace to a dark escape, in the promise of submerged truths coming to light.” –Vogue
A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged.
Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from—a place to which she vowed she'd never return.
With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, twisting, deeply satisfying read that hinges on the deceptiveness of emotion and memory, as well as the devastating ways that the past can reach a long arm into the present.
Beware a calm surface—you never know what lies beneath.
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