#BlogTour-‘Something In The Water’ by Catherine Steadman

About the book…

“Have you ever wondered how long it takes to dig a grave? Wonder no longer.

It takes an age. However long you think it takes, double it…”

Erin is a documentary filmmaker on the brink of a professional breakthrough; Mark is a handsome investment banker with a bright future. They seem to have it all, until Mark loses his job and cracks start to appear in their perfect life. But they’re determined to make it work.

They book their dream honeymoon and trust that things will work out – after all, they have each other.
On the tropical island of Bora Bora, Mark takes Erin scuba diving. Mark is with her – she knows he’ll keep her safe. Everything will be fine. Until they find something in the water…
Erin and Mark decide to keep their discovery a secret – after all, if no one else knows, who would be hurt? Their decision will trigger a devastating chain of events which will endanger everything they hold dear.

‘A wild, page-turning ride! It’s the perfect beach read!’ Reese Witherspoon

‘‘Something In The Water’‘ was selected for the Reese Witherspoon Book Club in July 2018 and has been optioned by Twentieth Century Fox for adaption, with Reese Witherspoon attached to produce.

When a book arrives on your doorstep, flagged as being Hitchcockian in tone and a highly elevated thriller, part of you opens it and demands ‘SHOW ME!’

In the very first chapter I was caught, hook line and sinker, by Catherine Steadman’s immaculate prose and the shocking events it portrays.

It then backtracks to the happiest days in the lives of Mark and Erin, their honeymoon in Bora Bora and the place where it all started to go oh so badly wrong. By building up the tension and maintaining a confessional tone to the first person narrative, Catherine really places you in the heart of an emotional whirlpool as you become more invested in this young couple who are heading for a deadly denouement.

They find something on a scuba diving expedition and without wanting to give away spoilers, it completely changes their lives. You are constantly kept on your toes as a reader, not in the respect that this is so fast that you are in danger of being left behind, but in the way that things accumulate as the plot advances, it gets bigger and denser with so much at stake that you genuinely fear for them both.

Mark and Erin could have been insufferably perfect but Catherine Steadman’s eye for details really engages you, and catches you caring about them before you consciously realise that you are in so deep that you cannot put this down! Or want to press it on all your book reading friends!
It is so very good it is hard to believe this is a debut novel and I am sure the buzz about the paperback release will be absolutely outstanding and those who have a hardback copy will be keen to read it over again!

Huge thanks to Anne Cater of Random Things for my blog tour invite and Simon and Schuster for my review copy, I remain ever grateful for the blog tour support and opportunities !

About the author…

Catherine Steadman is an actress and writer based in North London. She has appeared in leading roles on British television as well as on stage in the West End, most recently in Agatha Christie’s ‘Witness for the Prosecution’ in 2018.

In 2016 she was nominated for Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in Oppenheimer. She is best known for her role as Mabel Lane Fox in Downton Abbey. She grew up in the New Forest and lives with a small dog and average sized man.

‘Something in the Water’ is her first novel and her second is due for release in early 2020.

‘An opening worthy of Hitchcock’ Sunday Times
‘A tightly paced thriller that will leave you questioning your own morality’ Grazia
‘Pure adrenaline: I swallowed this book whole’ Erin Kelly
‘A thriller for our times’ Louise Candlish
‘A fascinating moral dilemma, a fast-paced examination of the slippery slope and the
precarious foundations our middle-class lives are built on, and a sensitive examination of
a marriage under pressure’ Gillian McAllister
‘It’s annoying to those of us who are qualified to do basically one thing when good actors
turn out also to be good writers. “Something in the Water” is a proper page-turner, not
just a novel produced by a celebrity to whom some wine-weakened publisher said at a
cocktail party, “You should write a book!” New York Times
‘A cunning mixture of domestic noir thriller and action romp… addictive morality tale
from a debut writer who already seems to know exactly what she is doing’ Sunday Express

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