RAINY DAY EXCERPTS: “THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW”

Welcome to another Tuesday celebrating bookish events, First Chapter/Intros, originally hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea and now hosted by I’d Rather Be at the Beach; and Teaser Tuesdays hosted by The Purple Booker.

Today’s featured book is The Woman in the Window, by A.J. Finn, a twisty, powerful Hitchcockian thriller about an agoraphobic woman who believes she witnessed a crime in a neighboring house.

 

 

Intro:  (Sunday – October 24) Her husband’s almost home.  He’ll catch her this time.

There isn’t a scrap of curtain, not a blade of blind, in number 212—the rust-red townhome that once housed the newlywed Motts, until recently, until they un-wed.  I never met either Mott, but occasionally I check in online:  his LinkedIn profile, her Facebook page.  Their wedding registry lives on at Macy’s.  I could still buy them flatware.

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Teaser:  4:34 a.m.  I shuddered myself awake.  Inspected both of them—Olivia first, then Ed.  I applied some snow to his face.  He didn’t flinch.  I rubbed it against his skin, sloughing off the blood; he twitched. (66%).

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Synopsis:  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 day 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.

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What do you think?  Do you want to keep reading?

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