The Woman in the Window by A J Flynn

It isn’t paranoia if it’s really happening . . .

Anna Fox lives alone–a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her days drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother, their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble–and its shocking secrets are laid bare.

What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one–and nothing–is what it seems. Twisty and powerful, ingenious and moving, The Woman in the Window is a smart, sophisticated novel of psychological suspense that recalls the best of Hitchcock–an unforgettable thriller that Gillian Flynn calls “amazing.”

  • Christine 7
  • Pauline 9
  • Jane 8
  • Sally 7
  • Rebecca 8
  • June 9
  • Janet 8
  • Elaine 8
  • Trude 7
  • Cai 7
Janet J
Score: 7.8

Himself by Jess Kidd

When Mahony returns to Mulderrig, a speck of a place on Ireland’s west coast, he brings only a photograph of his long-lost mother and a determination to do battle with the lies of his past.

No one – living or dead – will tell Mahony what happened to the teenage mother who abandoned him as a baby, despite his certainty that more than one of the villagers knows the sinister truth.

Between Mulderrig’s sly priest, its pitiless nurse and the caustic elderly actress throwing herself into her final village play, this beautiful and darkly comic debut novel creates an unforgettable world of mystery, bloody violence and buried secrets…

  • Pauline 7
  • Christine 8
  • June 8
  • Sally 8
  • Jane 6
  • Janet 5
  • Rebecca 7
  • Trude 7
  • Cai 8
  • Elaine 7
Cai M
Score: 7.1
2019-01-16