NEW YORK — The British author of “The Girl on the Train” will next tell a tale of murder in a riverside town.

Riverhead Books told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Paula Hawkins’ “Into the Water” is a suspense novel about family secrets and “the slipperiness of truth” that will be published May 2. It’s her first book since “The Girl on the Train,” the 2015 release that has sold more than 18 million copies worldwide and was adapted into a film of the same name starring Emily Blunt.

The plot of “Into the Water” centres on the discovery of the bodies of a mother and teenage girl at the bottom of the river and the investigation that follows.

Hillel Italie, The Associated Press

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