Hawkins plagues little Beckford with contemporary watery deaths, grieving about other watery deaths and the discovery of a manuscript about the town’s history of watery deaths. The rest of the novel takes place over the course of one month, August 2015. But Hawkins starts with just the spookiness, withholding the date and the full, pointless story for a long time. Libby, murdered by men in the prologue, turns out to be an accused witch from the 17th century. It also has a long history of women falling off, stepping into or otherwise dying via any of the above. Beckford has cliffs, a bridge, a river and a drowning pool. “Into the Water” is set in the rural British town of Beckford, an extremely unhealthy habitat for women. If “The Girl on the Train” seemed overplotted and confusing to some readers, it is a model of clarity next to this latest effort. There you have it: All the good news about her new one, “Into the Water.” And rather than mimic her proven formula for success, she has tried something very different. Paula Hawkins has followed up “The Girl on the Train,” her 2015 monster hit, with another bookload of skulduggery. INTO THE WATER By Paula Hawkins 386 pages.
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