Episode 2

As the police begin their investigation into Nel Abbott's death, DS Erin Morgan arrives in Beckford, and Jules is forced to confront her own history with the Drowning Pool...

Author of 'The Girl on the Train' Paula Hawkins's addictive novel of psychological suspense.

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 15-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.

Beware a calm surface-you never know what lies beneath.

Jules ...... Sian Brooke
Lena ...... Lily Loveless
Erin ...... Sarah Ridgeway

Abridged by Doreen Estall

Producer: Gemma McMullan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017.