The thing about this novel is that it keeps you constantly on your toes, never 100% sure of what is happening or even if what the narrator tells you is actually true. Our narrator is Anna Fox, a woman with severe agoraphobia, who insists that she saw a murder in a neighboring house. If this sounds like it's straight out of Hitchcock, that's probably true. Since Anna doesn't go outside, she is a classic film buff, and old movie themes play prominently in the storyline. Chapters are short -- very clever since that keeps the pages turning and the reading light on late at night.
Twists abound in The Woman in the Window. A colleague of mine read this at the same time as I did, and it was interesting that she guessed one twist and I guessed another. Neither of us suspected the other's correctly guessed twist. That's what makes this book really original and a supremely fun read.
MY RATING - 4
