Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman

 

Reviewed by Laura

Something in the Water was one of Reese's Book Club picks and was written by Catherine Steadman, an actress known for her work on Downton Abbey. It started VERY slowly, but I persisted because it was one of my Book Bingo picks (ocean on cover). About halfway through, it became exciting and I did enjoy the remainder of the book.

The story is told through the eyes of Erin, a documentary filmmaker who is in the process of completing an interesting collection of interviews with inmates soon to be released from prison. She is madly in love with the man she has lived with four years and plans to marry. Mark, her fiancée, is the handsome type of man who is so kind that everyone loves him immediately. Unfortunately, just before their wedding, Mark loses his job in investment banking. Despite this, they still decide to go on an abbreviated (two weeks, rather than four!) honeymoon to Bora, Bora.

And this is the point where the story begins to get interesting.

Erin had a bad experience scuba diving in the past and is anxious about repeating it, but promises Mark she will dive with him on their trip. Of course, the unimaginable happens and they discover a wrecked plane under the water and a satchel that floats to their boat. The satchel is full of money and diamonds and that is when the question that changes the course of their story and their life arrives. Do we report it or keep it? What would you do?

I would recommend this book if you can get through the beginning to the meat of the story. Would I have persevered if it wasn't for my Bingo card? Hard to say. I did end up enjoying it, though, and was glad I kept at it.