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Grief and murder

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British writer Paula Hawkins' latest novel, Into the Water, is a story about how grief shapes us and how we move on from tragedy.

A small town is rocked when several women get swept away by the river that runs through it, including a single mother of a 15-year-old girl. In order to take care of her, the girl's aunt returns, though the older woman vowed that she would never come back to the town that holds so much of her grief. But things aren't always what they seem, and soon it becomes clear that the women may have been murdered. With an intricately woven mystery at its core, the book examines how memories can deceive us, and how our childhood shapes our perceptions of reality.