#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER

An addictive new novel of psychological suspense from the author of #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train.

“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.


《紐約時報》暢銷冠軍

年度讀者票選獎神秘驚悚類贏家

本書為《紐約時報》暢銷冠軍且受全球矚目的《列車上的女孩》作者又一巨作，是一本令讀者上癮的全新心理懸疑小說。

｢霍金斯在女作家群中如吉莉安．弗琳和梅根．艾柏特嶄露頭角，她們藉由在故事中注入豐富的心理威脅和社會不安定等特色，復甦文學懸疑小說。逃脫黑暗能獲得慰藉，因為掩蓋的事實將真相大白｣——《時尚》

一位單親媽媽陳屍在一條貫穿小鎮的河底，初夏之時，一位瘦弱青少女的命運也是如此。她倆皆非第一起喪命於此河水的女性，但她們的死亡擾動了這條河和它的歷史，且揭開了沈浸已久的秘密。

孤獨的 15 歲女孩被獨自遺留在世上，她無父無母、孤身一人，現在她發現自己將由阿姨照料，她的阿姨是一位可怕的陌生人，曾被拖回那個她想盡辦法逃離且發誓永不回去的地方。

作者擅長推進劇情的寫作手法，以及對人類本能的深刻理解，緊扣千萬讀者的心弦，作者珀拉．霍金斯迅速受到矚目的驚悚處女作小說《列車上的女孩》，帶給讀者情節緊湊、扭曲且令人心滿意足的故事，內容將情緒和記憶的迷惑交疊相扣，以毀滅性的方式讓過去的種種與現在交織。

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