Paula Hawkins

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. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER

When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim’s home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member. And Miriam is the nosy neighbor clearly keeping secrets from the police. Three women with separate connections to the victim. Three women who are – for different reasons – simmering with resentment. Who are, whether they know it or not, burning to right the wrongs done to them. When it comes to revenge, even good people might be capable of terrible deeds. How far might any one of them go to find peace? How long can secrets smolder before they explode into flame? Look what you started.

Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She’s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she’s only watched from afar. Now they’ll see; she’s much more than just the girl on the train... An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

¿Estabas en el tren de las 8.04? ¿Viste algo sospechoso? Rachel, sí Rachel toma siempre el tren de las 8.04 h. Cada mañana lo mismo: el mismo paisaje, las mismas casas… y la misma parada en la señal roja. Son solo unos segundos, pero le permiten observar a una pareja desayunando tranquilamente en su terraza. Siente que los conoce y se inventa unos nombres para ellos: Jess y Jason. Su vida es perfecta, no como la suya. Pero un día ve algo. Sucede muy deprisa, pero es suficiente. ¿Y si Jess y Jason no son tan felices como ella cree? ¿Y si nada es lo que parece? Tú no la conoces. Ella a ti, sí. «Un impresionante debut en el mundo del thriller.» The Guardian «Agárrate fuerte... Nunca sabes los horrores que acechan en la siguiente curva» USA Today «Nada como un posible asesinato para romper la monotonía de tu viaje diario en metro» Cosmopolitan

'How can you say things like this? How can you be so blind?' Since they were kids, Edie, Jake and Ryan have been the closest of friends. It's been the three of them against the world. Edie thought the bonds between them were unbreakable. So when Jake is brutally murdered and Ryan accused of the crime, her world is shattered. Edie is alone for the first time in years, living in the remote house that she and Jake shared. She is grief-stricken and afraid - with good reason. Because someone is watching. Someone has been waiting for this moment. Now that Edie is alone, the past she tried so hard to leave behind is about to catch up with her...

The spellbinding new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the Train. An isolated Scottish island, accessible to the mainland only twelve hours a day. A famous (some might say infamous) artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared after visiting her twenty years ago. A present-day discovery that intimately connects three people and unveils a web of secrets and lies. A masterful and propulsive novel that asks searing questions of ambition, power, gender and perception, The Blue Hour recalls the very best of Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith and cements Hawkins’s place among the very best of our most nuanced, powerful and stylish storytellers.

Quando il corpo di sua sorella Nel viene trovato in fondo al fiume di Beckford, nel nord dell'Inghilterra, Julia Abbott è costretta a fare ciò che non avrebbe mai voluto: mettere di nuovo piede nella soffocante cittadina della loro adolescenza, un luogo da cui i suoi ricordi, spezzati, confusi, a volte ambigui, l'hanno sempre tenuta lontana. Ma adesso che Nel è morta, è il momento di tornare. Di tutte le cose che Julia sa, o pensa di sapere, di sua sorella, ce n'è solo una di cui è certa davvero: Nel non si sarebbe mai buttata. Era ossessionata da quel fiume, e da tutte le donne che, negli anni, vi hanno trovato la fine - donne "scomode", difficili, come lei -, ma mai e poi mai le avrebbe seguite. Allora qual è il segreto che l'ha trascinata con sé dentro l'acqua? E perché Julia, adesso, ha così tanta paura di essere lì, nei luoghi del suo passato? La verità, sfuggente come l'acqua, è difficile da scoprire a Beckford: è sepolta sul fondo del fiume, negli sguardi bassi dei suoi abitanti, nelle loro vite intrecciate in cui nulla è come sembra.

Rachel neemt elke ochtend dezelfde trein. Elke dag hobbelt ze over het spoor, langs een rij charmante huizen in een buitenwijk van Londen, en stopt daar altijd voor hetzelfde rode sein. Zo kijkt ze elke ochtend naar een stel dat op hun terras ontbijt. Ze heeft inmiddels het gevoel dat ze hen persoonlijk kent en noemt hen ‘Jess en Jason’. Hun leven – in Rachels ogen – is perfect. Een beetje zoals haar eigen leven dat ooit was. Op een dag ziet ze iets vreemds in hun tuin. De trein rijdt gewoon weer door, maar voor Rachel verandert alles. Niet in staat om het voor zichzelf te houden, stapt ze naar de politie met haar verhaal, wanneer blijkt dat 'Jess' vermist wordt. Hiermee raakt ze niet alleen verwikkeld in de gebeurtenissen die volgen, maar ook in de levens van iedereen die erbij betrokken is. Maar wie is er te vertrouwen? Heeft ze meer kwaad dan goed gedaan door zich met deze zaak te bemoeien?

Het Tate Modern-museum in Londen houdt een tentoonstelling over ‘Beeldhouwwerken en natuur’. Een van de werken in bruikleen is van Vanessa Chapman, een beroemde – sommigen zouden zeggen beruchte – kunstenares. Als de tentoonstelling net geopend is, ontvangt het museum een verontrustend bericht. Een zeer vooraanstaand forensisch antropoloog claimt dat in het kunstwerk gebruik is gemaakt van een menselijk bot. En dat terwijl de notoir ontrouwe echtgenoot van de kunstenares twintig jaar geleden op miraculeuze wijze is verdwenen…Kunstkenner James Becker reist af naar de Schotse kust om de waarheid boven water te halen. Vanessa’s nalatenschap wordt beheerd op een geïsoleerd eiland dat alleen met eb bereikbaar is. Ga je erheen, dan kom je er de komende zes uur niet meer weg. Ligt de waarheid op het eiland begraven?