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The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Anna suffers from agoraphobia. She cannot leave her house and spends much of her time peering through her windows, watching her neighbors. She has few visitors - a therapist or two will stop by - but even her husband and daughter are not with her. Anna exists in a very isolated, small world.

When new neighbors arrive Anna becomes absorbed in their lives. She watches closely and sees something horrific, something that the police don't believe, something the neighbors deny. So is it hallucinations Anna's suffering from? Is it the medication she takes? Trying to determine what is real and what isn't in this book is an adventure.

Readers shouldn't be intimidated by the 400 plus pages. This read goes quickly and is difficult to put down. Anna's agoraphobia is interesting to read about. There are lots of twists and surprises along the way. I wasn't able to predict the ending but enjoyed trying to puzzle it out.

The only thing that kept this from being a five star read was the amount of drinking done by the main character. I've seen this done in many other books recently - and then I'm left with an unreliable narrator. I need something different. It worked in this story but I just didn't want to read about an overly medicated woman again.

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