Woman in the Window (Finn) - Book Reviews

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The rocket fuel propelling The Woman in the Window, the first stratosphere-ready mystery of 2018, is expertise. Its author is … a longtime editor of mystery fiction. He is well versed in the tricks of the trade … [and] clearly knows a lot about the more diabolical elements in Hitchcock movies…At heart, this is a locked-room mystery in the great Christie tradition.… Once the book gets going, it excels at planting misconceptions everywhere. You cannot trust anything you read.… A book that's as devious as this novel will delight anyone who's been disappointed too often.
Janet Maslin - New York Times

As the plot seizes us, the prose caresses us.… [Finn] has not only captured, sympathetically, the interior life of a depressed person, but also written a riveting thriller that will keep you guessing to the very last sentence.
Washington Post


The secrets of Anna’s past and the uncertain present are revealed slowly in genuinely surprising twists. And, while the language is at times too clever for its own good, readers will eagerly turn the pages to see how it all turns out.
Publishers Weekly


Finn's white-knuckler defines the term hot debut. Its heroine…sees—or thinks she sees—something shocking, and what follows has wracked nerves enough to merit Gone Girl/Girl on the Train comparisons.
Library Journal


(Starred review.) [A] neo-noir masterpiece. Grab a bottle of Merlot, and settle in to accompany Anna Fox on her nightmare journey…. An astounding debut from a truly talented writer, perfect for fans in search of more like Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train.
Booklist


Crackling with tension, and the sound of pages turning, as twist after twist sweeps away each hypothesis you come up with about what happened in Anna's past and what fresh hell is unfolding now.
Kirkus Reviews