Woman in the window author6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() The book’s opening line, part of Anna’s interior monologue, establishers her voyeurism: “Her husband’s almost home. She passes time watching – and critiquing – old black and white classic noir, playing chess online and spying on her neighbors across the street, with a Nikon zoom lens. Anna Fox, is an agoraphobic shut-in Rear Window, Gone Girl, Girl on a Train thirty-something. An intelligent woman, a psychologist who’s had a breakdown, she’s separated from her husband and young daughter, though she talks to them regularly, and medicates herself. Finn does with “The Woman in the Window” is remarkable. He’s created a breathless, stunning twist-and-turn plot that cleverly relies on familiar scenarios, most of the Hitchcock kind, and builds the Hitchcock references into his own story. Cynics that we are, we also tend to think that best-seller suspense tales must be contrived. We’re so sophisticated, so jaded by edgy crime in fiction and movies, not to mention real life, that we’re suspicious when we’re told a new book‘s come along that’s a nail-biting page turner. It’s quite an accomplishment to write a psychological thriller these days. ![]()
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