Review: The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn

Anna is a psychiatrist and a survivor of trauma.  She is agoraphobic after the trauma and quite lonely.  She watched neighbors with her zoom camera lens and drinks and pops pills excessively.

The story is told from the first person and she is quite the unreliable narrator ala The Girl on a Train which is something that can be done well or very badly.  In this case, it is wonderful.

She witnesses and reports a murder of a woman she met once.  Only there is no sign of the victim and another woman is claiming to be the wife who is NOT the one she met.  Very Rear Window (which is acknowledged in the book).

She is so out of it with the drugs etc... it is hard to tell what is real and what isn't/  that of course, is the point.  As she wonders about Gaslighting, so does the reader.  Her life has become like that of a character of the black and white classic  thrillers she loves so much.

I love that there is doubt and then certainty, then doubt again as the ride continues.  This was a very satisfying and emotional ride.

Terri