Still Water

Written by Amy Stuart

Narrated by Madeleine Maby

From The Globe and Mail bestselling author of Still Mine comes a new thriller featuring Clare and Malcolm, this time on the hunt for a missing mother and son in a town that is drowning in deception—Clare may be in her gravest danger yet.

HOW DO YOU FIND THE TRUTH IN A TOWN FULL OF SECRETS? 

Clare has to find them.

Sally Proulx and her young boy have mysteriously disappeared in the stormy town of High River. Clare is hired to track them down, hoping against all odds to find them alive. But High River isn’t your typical town. It’s a place where women run to—women who want to escape their past. They run to Helen Haines, a matriarch who offers them safe haven and anonymity. Pretending to be Sally’s long-lost friend, Clare turns up and starts asking questions, but nothing prepares her for the swirl of deception and the depth of the lies.

Did Sally drown? Did her son? Was it an accident, or is their disappearance part of something bigger?

In a town where secrets are crucial to survival, everyone is hiding something. Detectives Somers and Rourke clearly have an ulterior motive beyond solving the case. Malcolm Boon, who hired Clare, knows more about her than he reveals. And Helen is concealing a tragic family history of her own. As the truth surges through High River, Clare must face the very thing she has so desperately been running from, even if it comes at a devastating cost. Compulsively gripping and twisty, Still Water is a deep dive of a thriller that will leave you breathless.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Release date: May 8, 2018
• ISBN: 9781982109318

Amy Stuart

Amy Stuart is the #1 bestselling author of three novels: Still Mine, Still Water, and Still Here. Shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Best First Novel Award and winner of the 2011 Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Competition, Amy is the founder of Writerscape, an online community for hopeful and emerging writers. Amy lives in Toronto with her husband and their three sons. Connect with her on her website AmyStuart.ca and on Twitter @AmyFStuart.

Reviews for Still Water

[rmarcin-630843 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This is the second installment in the Still series. I want as engaged in this novel as I was with the first novel. The ending hints of a 3rd novel, which is being released later this year (2020). I listened to this on CD, and I didn’t care for the narrator, which may have led to my 3 of 5 stars rating. I also didn’t think there was enough action in the book.Claire is on her second assignment for Malcolm. She is searching for Sally and Sally’s soon, William. They have disappeared. Claire poses as a friend, and Helen takes Claire in at her home, which is a refuge for women. There, Claire meets Ginny, Helen’s daughter, and Raylene, another woman trying to hide. Helen’s brother and his wife live across the river with their daughter and another brother lives in town. Claire gets a bad feeling from one of the cops assigned to Sally’s case. As Claire works to solve the case she has to confront her past and uncover ugly secrets of this town.#StillWater AmyStuart

[bingereader87 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This was a really interesting continuation of Clare’s story as well as a brand new mystery. Video review coming soon.