What it's about: Vivian Miller has a sweet job on the CIA Russian desk as an analyst, although she'd really rather stay home with her family of four children and loving husband, Matt. Finn (Morrow).

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2018. She is unreliable and she is, of course, an alcoholic. One character has huge credibility problems.

Another reader said it well when she said that the book could have been much shorter. Not for your group if: Stories of child death upset you. At one point, after Anna has dutifully invoked “Gaslight,” the book also throws in: “Because it was no dream. Bethanne Patrick is the editor, most recently, of "The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians and Other Remarkable People.".

Its nods to contemporary tastes are offset by things like a reference to “The Thinking Machine,” the nickname of Professor Augustus S.F.X. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon.

Or hated. What it's about: Angela's marriage to brilliant economics professor Jason is perfect. Like the book's first sentence, however, Louise's appearance is deceiving. What it's about: A Brooklyn agoraphobe named Anna Fox spots a new family across the way, but as she gets to know them, she finds out they aren't at all what they seem to be, or even who they seem to be.
Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2018. Angela tries to stand by her man, but when one of Jason's accusers, a woman named Kerry Lynch, disappears, she's forced to reconsider her loyalty. But what book to pick now? Finn knows commerce but he also knows the classics, old and new. You need one little thing, but once you find it, you realize its taken you two hours to find what you're looking for and now it's going to take you that long to get to the exit. Well, believe me, from now on, I will read the sample before I buy the book. You just listed all the questions I had with this book! We rely on readers like you to uphold a free press.

To find out, Anna may have to leave the house.
From the synopsis I can’t help picturing Rear Window. The two of them spend a wonderful, confessional evening back in the house, playing chess and getting loaded. Vivian finds it hard to know whom to trust as the family's seemingly idyllic life is threatened by a cascade of secrets and other threats. I guess I am not the only one who reads a synopsis and thinks the book is bound to be good.

But despite the value of “show, don’t tell” for any writer, this author loves using examples to a fault. For hard-core aficionados of classic logical mysteries, this book includes some special delights. There are shades of Hitchcock’s “Shadow of a Doubt,” “Vertigo,” “Spellbound,” “Suspicion” and, of course, George Cukor’s “Gaslight,” which has an enormous influence on the whole book (and has influenced many of its predecessors). (‘This is no dream! Don't even start. (Case in point: those who were hooked by Paula Hawkins’s “The Girl on the Train” but then suffered through her “Into the Water.”) And “The Woman in the Window” sneaks in its zenith of trickery into an effortless early scene.

You can’t have a psychological thriller these days with a sober person, can you? Unfortunately, as his career takes flight, women begin to hurl accusations of sexual misconduct his way. It was j. ‘The Woman in the Window’ lives up to the hype, The Wife Between Us Honestly it reads like a poorly edited first draft. Only this is worse, because you are trapped in the massive building with people you don't want to have anything to do with. Everyone on the street thinks she is peculiar, and that’s the best-case scenario. But then Vivian discovers a terrible secret about Matt, and the job he's urged her to keep takes on new importance. What it's about: Vanessa, recently divorced from Richard, learns he is engaged again and envies the new woman, Nellie. Anna Fox is a recently separated woman … Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2018. Finn is a completely inept writer (his use of language is hilariously bad), and I find myself truly angry that I spent $13.99 for his execrable work. This page works best with JavaScript.

:). For your group if: You're ready for a complete roller coaster-ride of a novel. A lame twist at the end finished the book quickly and made no sense. Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2018.

To help sort them out, It seemed to be following the way Girl on the Train was written, but never got going for me. Pre-publication book reviews and features keeping readers and industry influencers in the know since 1933. For your group if: You like your #MeToo meme as a fast-paced narrative. Not for your group if: You dislike the atmosphere of upper-class New York City.