The Woman in the Window by A.J.Finn

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, a mother, their teenage 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.

The Woman in the Window A novel by A.J. Finn is a psychological thriller that has been compared to books such as The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl. Like, everyone, I do love a good mystery story. By far the best thriller I have come across this year. Thanks to my friend for referring to this one. The story opens with a woman vigorously spying on her neighbors through the windows at her house. She seems to be deeply interested in others’ life and notes down every tiny detail of her neighbors. In the beginning, you get an impression of a lonely woman who has an obsession for abusing drugs, wine, the black & white classics, and spy on neighbors. Well, this is how the story slowly starts to unfold.

So, Anna Fox, a former child psychologist currently living in her New York City home, is an agoraphobic due to the post-traumatic stress she has faced in her recent past. Her husband Ed and daughter Olivia visit her once in a while but is not living with her. As the story proceeds further you get to know that she has not left her house in over a year. She is swimming in a pool of prescription drugs and also is a part of the online community for people suffering from agoraphobia. She continues her psychology practice online and does not venture outside her house. The only company she has is her family who visits once in a while, her therapists, tenant and the Russells who are the new neighbors.
Being drunk and drugged all the time, very shortly she claims to have witnessed a murder in her neighborhood and is incapable of remembering what she saw and thought she saw. In the process of solving the mystery murder, a revelation of secrets shakes the readers off-guard.

Despite being a psychological thriller, this book tends to go at a slow pace. The first twenty chapters or so turned out to be pretty slow for me. It’s a slow thriller with a high-level mystery element. This book had me at my edge and it did give me the goosebumps. I thoroughly enjoyed this read.

Now all that’s left is to see if the movie lives up to the reviews this book has received!

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