Woman in the Water

Written by Katerina Diamond

Narrated by Stevie Lacey

The breathtakingly twisty new thriller – guaranteed to shock and surprise

I’m alive. But I can’t be saved . . .

When a woman’s body is found submerged in icy water, police are shocked to find she is alive. But she won’t disclose her name, or what happened to her – even when a second body is discovered. And then she disappears from her hospital bed.

Detectives Adrian Miles and Imogen Grey follow their only lead to the home of the Corrigans, looking for answers. But the more they dig into the couple’s lives, the less they understand about them.

What’s their connection to the body in the river?

Why have other people they know been hurt, or vanished?

And can they discover the dark truth of their marriage before it’s too late?

Smart, shocking and twisty – perfect for fans of Cara Hunter and Karin Slaughter.

Readers love Woman in the Water…

‘Left me speechless’ ***** Reader Review

‘So many twists and turns. It kept me on the edge of my seat!’ ***** Reader Review

‘A fantastic author and queen of shocking twists!’ ***** Reader Review

‘One of the year’s best books’ ***** Reader Review

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Release date: Jan 9, 2020
• ISBN: 9780008282974

Katerina Diamond

Katerina Diamond burst onto the crime scene with her debut The Teacher, which became a Sunday Times bestseller and a number one Kindle bestseller. It was longlisted for the CWA John Creasey Debut Dagger Award and the Hotel Chocolat Award for ‘darkest moment’. The Teacher was followed by sequels The Secret, The Angel, The Promise, Truth or Die and Woman in the Water, all of which featured detectives Adrian Miles and Imogen Grey. The Heatwave is her first standalone thriller.

Reviews for Woman in the Water

[carole888fort · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Woman in the Water by Katerina Diamond is the sixth entry in the DS Imogen Grey series but can easily be read as a standalone. DS Adrian Miles is called to the scene of a crime: a woman, barely alive, has been beaten within an inch of her life and left semi-submerged in the river shallows. His partner, DS Imogen Grey, joins him at the hospital where the mystery woman has been taken. The woman soon disappears, leaving the detectives without a clue as to who she is, who did this to her and where she is running to. Their investigation leads them to the home of the Corrigans. It becomes clear that Mr. Corrigan’s entourage live in fear of the man and injuries and missing persons are not uncommon. This mystery is well-written and often surprises the reader with unexpected details and events throughout, including a very surprising ending. I highly recommend this original police procedural. Thank you to Avon Books UK and NetGalley for the e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

[nicx27 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Wowee, I think this is the best of the Grey and Miles books I have read so far. I also just need to say this: Ms Diamond, how could you?!The story opens with DS Adrian Miles rescuing a woman from an icy river. It seems she must be dead but amazingly she has survived. He feels really strongly about the woman as it seems like she has been a victim of some kind of violence and having grown up in an abusive household he is determined not to watch it happen to someone else.Along with his partner, DS Imogen Grey, they start trying to find out who the woman is and how she ended up in the river. Not easy to begin with but as they start digging a story unfolds. That story follows a fairly standard path but with some deviations that made this a really rather chilling story. I'd already gleaned from other reviews that maybe something quite shocking was going to happen and it certainly does but it wasn't what I was expecting at all. I was horrified by this turn of events, more so I think because I had followed these characters across several books, but I thought the author dealt with it very well and very sympathetically.Anyway, enough of that because I am definitely not going to spoil it for future readers. I found Woman in the Water to be absolutely gripping. The plot itself is disturbing and dark and there's also the evolving relationship between Imogen and Adrian running alongside it. I like them both so much and I do hope that we'll see more from them in the future. Katerina Diamond is a brilliant writer, constructing twisty crime thrillers with characters you can't help but care about. This is one of only a couple of police procedural series I look forward to reading and this instalment had me completely absorbed.

[pgchuis · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I received a copy of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley.While waiting to see if I was approved for an ARC I borrowed the first in the series from the library, but quit after a few chapters. I then hoped I would get turned down for the ARC, but here we are...I am also quitting this one (at 23%). This time I felt the plot did get moving fairly promptly, although there were plenty of repetitious paragraphs about Imogen and Adrian's decision to keep their relationship secret. I just can't keep going though: the writing is off somehow (people just don't talk like that), I find Imogen's constant musings about Adrian juvenile, and when a witness stabbed himself in front of them I was done.