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For readers of Gillian Flynn and Tana French comes one of the decade's most anticipated debuts, to be published in thirty-six languages around the world and already in development as a major film from Fox: a twisty, powerful Hitchcockian thriller about an agoraphobic woman who believes she witnessed a crime in a neighboring house. It isn't paranoia if it's really happening . . . Anna Fox lives alone—a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble?and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one—and nothing—is what it seems. Twisty and powerful, ingenious and moving, The Woman in the Window is a smart, sophisticated novel of psychological suspense that recalls the best of Hitchcock.
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The book that got me hooked on psychological thrillers
0It was fine, a quick read; I thought it was full of cliches/predictable.
0I enjoyed this book well enough, but it was ultimately pretty unremarkable. Certainly an easy and fairly engaging read with an interesting premise and story line, but I wonder if what made it a page turner was less my wanting to see what happens, and more my just wanting to get through it? Most (though not all!) of the twists I saw coming a mile away, and it often felt frustrating waiting for Anna to put many of them together. I didn't sympathize with her backstory well enough to write a blank check for all the basic and critical things she didn't notice or remember in her drink- and drug- induced stupor. In fact, there were very few aspects of the mystery that she pieced together herself, most key revelations were just handed to her by another character, right at the end.
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