Dr.
Anna Fox, a child psychologist, hasn’t left her home in nearly a year because
she suffers from agoraphobia. She self-medicates with a combination of
prescription drugs and alcohol, and fills her days by watching classic suspense
films, playing chess online, talking to her husband and daughter (from whom she
is separated), and looking through her camera lens at the neighbors.
One afternoon, while spying on the family who lives
across the park from her, Anna witnesses a horrific crime. Or did she? The
police and her neighbors think that she is a delusional drunk who imagined the
entire incident. Anna even begins to doubt herself. And, as more strange things
happen, Anna wonders if she might be losing her mind. Anna’s own story
gradually unfolds throughout the book, and I found myself sympathizing with
her, and rooting for her too, as she struggled to put the pieces together.
Reminiscent of both the Hitchcock film Rear Window and the contemporary book and movie The Girl on the Train, this intense,
fast-paced psychological thriller kept me guessing until the very end.
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