A. J. Finn is wrote a thriller that has captured the book world. A Woman in the Window is about child psychologist Dr. Anna Fox who is also agoraphobic. She sits at her apartment window and observes her neighbors and sometimes takes photographs.  A new family has moved in across the street who has captured Anna’s attention. What occurs and what Anna sees makes for a page turning thriller.

Weird and really wonderfully written with evocative descriptions, this book is filled with engaging if not quite likeable characters. A satire, this book shifts between lightness and sincerity. It may not be everyone’s taste, but this tale — about a woman who takes a job as “Emotional Girlfriend” for a famous actor as part of his project to take all of the different roles played by a girlfriend and hire different women to take them on — sure was mine.

This book explores ideas around celebrity, having personal connections after trauma, and what it means to be living in what you feel is a broken body, and again, does so with absolutely gorgeous sentences.

Reviewed by Pam

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A thrilling story of survival and coming to terms with one’s background and biology, this book tackles tough subjects while maintaining a breakneck pace of readability. The unique voice of the narrator captured this evocative, brutal, and believable story of a woman, on the hunt for her father, who had abducted her mother as a teenager and kept her captive for more than a decade. Now, her father has escaped from prison, and our narrator is the only one with the wilderness skills and personal connection to track him down.

I am not normally a thriller person, but this book grabbed me right from the beginning and kept a tight hold until the very end.

Reviewed by Pam

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