'Girl on the Train' author Paula Hawkins announces next book

Even a mediocre movie adaptation can't ruin enthusiasm for books. Paula Hawkins, author of the bestselling thriller The Girl on the Train, will release her next novel, Into the Water, in 2017.

“Into the Water is an urgent, surprising, deeply satisfying read," Hawkins' U.S. editor Sarah McGrath said in a press release. "Paula Hawkins pulls the reader along with so much intrigue, but as with her last thriller, the murder mystery is just one piece of the larger whole, just one element of what readers will connect with."

The book will be released by Penguin under Riverhead Books, which accompanied the release with a synopsis:

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. Like The Girl on the Train, Hawkins’s new novel Into the Water hinges on a powerful understanding of human instincts and the damage they can inflict.

"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," McGrath added.

Into the Water will be available on May 2, 2017.