400 pages / 11 hrs, 31 mins
"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.
"...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." --from the publisher
This is an oddly-constructed story with lots of unlikable characters and several minor themes. It was kind of all over the place. I do like the way Paula Hawkins turns a phrase, and in the audio version the cast of readers did an excellent job. I won't be recommending the book, but I did like it. I gave it 3 stars out of 5 on Goodreads.
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