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  1. The Girl on the Train. Website. paulahawkinsbooks.com. Paula Hawkins (born 26 August 1972) is a British author best known for her top-selling psychological thriller novel The Girl on the Train (2015), which deals with themes of domestic violence, alcohol, and drug abuse. [1][2] The novel was adapted into a film starring Emily Blunt in 2016. [3]

  2. Aug 24, 2017 · The Zimbabwe-born British author Paula Hawkins is best known for her psychological thriller, 'The Girl on the Train.' Her second book, 'Into the Water,' continues similar themes, such as death and mystery. Photo courtesy of John Moen/AP

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    For the Detailed Plot Summary, click here or scroll all the way down. The town of Beckford is known as a suicide spot. Its Drowning Pool is a place where many people have committed suicide and where other deaths have occurred over the years. When Jules she receives word that her long-estranged sister has been found dead there, she has no choice but...

    So, Into The Wateris primarily about the investigation into a death that occurs at the “Drowning Pool”, a part of a river that lies underneath a cliff where many deaths have occurred over the years. But the Drowning Pool’s storied history quickly comes into play, and the circumstances surrounding a number of other deaths come into question as well....

    In terms of the twists and turns, that’s where things started to break down for me. There’s a ton of them in general. If you love mysteries where there are a lot of red herrings and false turns, then you might like this book. However, I got a little impatient after a while since at some point the plot just feels very “messy”. There’s just a ton of ...

    The book is a suspenseful and twisty one, and the writing is solid. It’s a little hard to follow, but definitely not impossible. If you go in knowing you’ll need to concentrate a little, you’ll be fine. Towards the end, I was a little tired of all the red herrings (so much of this book is just a ton of red herrings) and the convoluted plot, but ove...

    Towards the end, the book starts trying to convince us that Katie (a 15-year-old child) and Mark (a 29 year-old-man) were genuinely “in love” which I cannot possibly even remotely understand why she tries to do that. It’s one thing for Mark to think it, since obviously he’s a delusional pedophile, but for Lena to think so too makes me think that Ha...

  3. Sep 22, 2021 · Carla and her husband Theo, a famous crime novelist, split after their son died and now live in separate grand houses near the canal. Theo is being hounded by a woman named Miriam, who furiously believes he has plagiarised her memoir. She too lives on a (nicer) houseboat: Daniel has moved on to a boat next to hers.

  4. Oct 12, 2024 · The Girl on the Train: Emily Blunt in the film adaptation of Paula Hawkins's novel Her thriller debut, published in 2015, became an instant bestseller and was made into a movie starring Emily Blunt.

  5. Into the Water (2017) is a thriller novel by British author Paula Hawkins. [1] It is Hawkins' second full-length thriller following the success of The Girl on the Train . Although the novel performed well, becoming a Sunday Times best seller [ 2 ] and featuring on The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 2017 , [ 3 ] critical reception was generally not as positive as it had been for her ...

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  7. Aug 31, 2021 · The writer Paula Hawkins likes to take walks near where she lives in London, which happens to be near the region's canal, where a lot of houseboats are moored. As she walks, Hawkins is looking ...

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