By A.J. Finn
William Morrow, 2018. 449 pgs. Fiction.
Dr. Anna Fox used to be a brilliant child psychologist, but now she can’t even leave her own house. An accident last winter has caused her to become agoraphobic and she now spends her time self-medicating and drinking bottle after bottle of Merlot while observing her neighbors. Anna is particularly interested in the new family that moved in across the park—the Russells. One night, she sees something she shouldn’t and the walls she has built up to keep herself safe start to crumble.
I’m new to the mystery/thriller genre and to unreliable narrators, so maybe I was a little too easily impressed by this book and all of its twists and turns. However, I thought it was a quick and engaging read that had me hooked from the beginning. Even though I enjoyed it overall, I was often frustrated with Anna because of how much she drank—it seemed like a simple solution to get people to start taking her seriously would be to stop mixing alcohol with her medications. I also wanted her to get one of those weekday pill boxes so she would stop double and triple dosing. This book had me guessing from beginning to end and I would recommend it for other people who are also new to the genre.
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