--- title: Girl on the Train: Paula Hawkins Announces New Book in 2017 description: Called Into the Water, Paula Hawkins’ next endeavor will tell a suspense story of murder in a riverside town, diving into family secrets. canonical: https://time.com/4584670/paula-hawkins-new-novel/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-29T14:27:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:01:47.739Z article:section: Ideas og:title: 'The Girl on the Train' Author Paula Hawkins Will Publish New Novel in 2017 og:description: 'Into the Water' will also be a tale of suspense og:url: https://time.com/4584670/paula-hawkins-new-novel/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt46497c102f3c0f3a/6988afe2cd1bba028e7033bf/paula-hawkins-into-the-water-novel.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The Build Series Presents Paula Hawkins And Tate Taylor Discussing The New Film "Girl On The Train" og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'The Girl on the Train' Author Paula Hawkins Will Publish New Novel in 2017 twitter:description: 'Into the Water' will also be a tale of suspense twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt46497c102f3c0f3a/6988afe2cd1bba028e7033bf/paula-hawkins-into-the-water-novel.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _The Girl on the Train_ Author Paula Hawkins Will Publish New Suspense Story in 2017 by [Jessica Goodman / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Jessica Goodman / Entertainment Weekly Nov 29, 2016 2:27 PM UTC  Paula Hawkins appears to promote "The Girl On The Train" during the AOL BUILD Series at AOL HQ on October 4, 2016 in New York City. Paula Hawkins appears to promote "The Girl On The Train" during the AOL BUILD Series at AOL HQ on October 4, 2016 in New York City.Donna Ward/Getty Images by [Jessica Goodman / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Jessica Goodman / Entertainment Weekly Nov 29, 2016 2:27 PM UTC Paula Hawkins, the British author who wrote the best seller _The Girl on the Train_, will publish her next book on May 2 via Riverhead Books. Called _Into the Water_, Hawkins’ next endeavor will tell a suspense story of murder in a riverside town, diving into family secrets and “the slipperiness of truth.” The description reads: “When a single mother and a teenage girl each turn up dead at the bottom of the river, just weeks apart, the ensuing investigation dredges up a complicated history.” “This story has been brewing for a good while,” Hawkins said in a statement. “For me there is something irresistible about the stories we tell ourselves, the way voices and truths can be hidden consciously or unconsciously, memories can be washed away and whole histories submerged.” Sarah McGrath, Hawkins’ editor in the U.S., said in a statement: “Just as _The Girl on the Train_ explored voyeurism and self-perception, so does _Into the Water_ interrogate the deceitfulness of memory and all the dangerous ways that the past can reach a long arm into the present and future.” _Into the Water_ will be Hawkins’ first novel since 2015’s _The Girl on the Train_, which rocked best-seller lists when it sold more than 18 million copies worldwide. The book was adapted into the[ Emily Blunt-fronted film](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/10/03/girl-on-the-train-ew-review), which bowed this year. Hawkins was not involved with the film, but when [speaking to EW about its release](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/25/girl-on-the-train-paula-hawkins-screenplay), she called her next novel a story between two sisters with “a very messy history.” In another interview last year, [Hawkins spoke to EW about her next release,](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/11/girl-train-author-paula-hawkins-talks-about-her-next-thriller) which would become _Into the Water_: “It’s a similar genre and it’s also going to be narrated by women but a very different book. I haven’t really talked about his much because it’s quite a difficult thing to explain. Because it sounds weird. It’s got quite a gothic feel to it. It’s _not_ about witch-hunting, I can tell you this. However, I wanted there to be something _about_ women being accused of witchcraft. That didn’t happen much in the south of England. Mostly that happened in Scotland and the north. That part of England really lends itself to a dark and gothic and brooding novel, so it worked out. I’m not at the point where I’ve got an elevator pitch, as you can tell! But I’m working on it and I think that it will be out next year.” _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/29/paula-hawkins-into-water) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) Girl on the Train: Paula Hawkins Announces New Book in 2017 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4584670/paula-hawkins-new-novel/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4584670/paula-hawkins-new-novel/"},"headline":"The Girl on the Train Author Paula Hawkins Will Publish New Suspense Story in 2017","datePublished":"2016-11-29T14:27:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:01:47.739Z","description":"Into the Water will tell the tale of a murder in a riverside town","url":"https://time.com/4584670/paula-hawkins-new-novel/","keywords":["Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt46497c102f3c0f3a/6988afe2cd1bba028e7033bf/paula-hawkins-into-the-water-novel.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jessica Goodman / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt46497c102f3c0f3a/6988afe2cd1bba028e7033bf/paula-hawkins-into-the-water-novel.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Build Series Presents Paula Hawkins And Tate Taylor Discussing The New Film \"Girl On The Train\"","caption":"Paula Hawkins appears to promote \"The Girl On The Train\" during the AOL BUILD Series at AOL HQ on October 4, 2016 in New York City.","creditText":"Donna Ward/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4584670/paula-hawkins-new-novel/","name":"The Girl on the Train Author Paula Hawkins Will Publish New Suspense Story in 2017"}}]}] ```