This is a story that will mess with your head over and over… One revelation after another. I loved it. The Woman in the Window is set out in days and short chapters making it an easy to read story which can be devoured easily.

At first I thought hmm this woman (Anna) is a bit strange maybe she is just one of those nosy neighbours we all hate, boy was I wrong. Readers are in for a treat with this story. I must admit I thought with the story being based in just one specific location that it was going to be dull and dragged out, yet again I was wrong.

I awarded four stars for this story as I found it took a while to get to the good bits but it still turned out to be a brilliant brain twister of a story to dive into. Highly recommend!

The Woman in the Window is available to pre-order now and will be released 25th of January 2018.

Alfred Hitchcock would have loved this book. Anna, a psychologist, finds herself on the opposite side of the couch and with the world against her. Like every great thriller, the plot has a twist at the end. Gripping - you can almost hear the film noir music playing in the background as you read !

Very unusual book. You get sucked in from the first claustrophobic line into the life of the woman in the window, you laugh with her, feel her pain and believe every word, and why not? Soon everything changes, what you thought you knew you didn’t. Well written and I never saw the ‘who’ whodunnit coming

This a good debut ,well told story,and I especially liked the main character and how her self medication played such a role ,even though u know outcome in a way as is a well told concept there is a time where u can see how there wd a lot of doubt regarding the perception of our main leading woman and I admired her dog eared determination ,and though she too at one stage did also doubt herself she cdnt let it go and managed to get her faith back in herself
I do understand the acclaim for a new writer however three stars as though good story has been told before and there are elements of a lot of well told story’s in this but it didn’t spoil my enjoyment and will look out for her second
Thank you Harper Collins and netgalley 🙋🏻👊😀

This is an incredible book. I simply couldn't put it down and every chapter left me wanting more.

Anna Fox lives an isolated life, dominated by fear and severe agoraphobia. There is an air of mystery from the beginning which slowly unravels to reveal a traumatic and devastating event which has left her this way.

Cleverly written, you can't help but warm to Anna and root for her, despite constant doubt from those around her. Full of twists and turns you will never guess what happens.

Actually a 3.5 because the ending was predictable and it moved a bit too slowly (the endless descriptions of agoraphobia were so repetitive! But I have rounded up not down because for all that I raced through it and enjoyed it anyway, which is not always the case with mediocre thrillers. So 4 stars and will check out her next offering. Thanks to netgalley for the copy

I don’t even know where to begin with this book. I thought I knew what this would be like, however it completely blew me away. I cannot remember the last time that I was so emotionally invested in a book that I actually shed a tear.
This is easily one of the best books I have read this year.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book - dark and twisted with the reader taken through lots of miniature 'reveals' as the story unfolded. Some of these I'd guessed, some I hadn't. Perhaps a tad too many film noir references which would only probably mean anything to readers equally familiar with and interested in that genre as the writer, but very atmospheric and certainly kept the attention throughout.

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn a five-star read that will leave you breathless. I can’t believe that this is a debut novel, its great and so well written I can only hope the next book I read by this author will be as good. Anna Fox was a great character and reading this really does make you start to wonder about the world around you. I’m already a little paranoid at times, I have a healthy sense of my surroundings and things I see, I also drink plenty of wine so me and Anna could be crazy neighbours, we even share a love for old movies. The things we don’t share is I like a drink, but it’s not my life and the author wrote Anna in a manner that made you felt her pain but you were also feeling a little sad for her and the life she leads.
The story is told from Dr Anna Fox and it could become a little heavy with just her in her apartment, but there are other characters brought in with people visiting and her online community. There is a lot going on in this story and you it’s so difficult to say more as I don’t want to spoil this amazing read. Its possibly one of the best debut phycological thrillers you will read this year.

Gripping - would have been a one-session special if I hadn't had to go out today when I was 96% through! I loved the tense, Hitchcock-tribute mood of it and was happily engrossed in my own little detective mission throughout. I was impressed at the author's ability to keep me in the dark in a literary climate where we are braced for every possible twist, not least because of all the feints at Gaslight and Rear Window.
The main character, a feisty wreck, if such an oxymoron can be permitted, drew me into her darkness and kept me spellbound throughout. Peripheral characters were no less engaging and provided a robust cast of potential victims and villains. I felt constantly as if this was written to be a movie and was gratified to read in the Acknowledgments that it's in development. I look forward to seeing how it turns out.

With thanks to NetGalley and HarperCollins UK for this ARC of The Woman In The Window.

I had heard so much about this book by A.J. Finn; so much praise from highly regarded authors including Stephen King ”unputdownable”, Val McDermid ”twisted to the power of max” - such comments I often ignore. How wrong can I be?! WOW!…

Without a moments hesitation let me say that The Woman In The Window is a read-in-one-sitting-book. No doubt. I know. Half way through I was faced with the distraction of meeting good friends for drinks and dinner. That’s the evening gone I thought. I almost cancelled, to my shame. I didn’t. My wife and I got back home at 10:30pm. I picked up where I left off and read into the early hours. (I still count this as a one-sitting-read. It would have been if an evening out hadn’t interrupted). I could not read fast enough! Page turning in a blur. Pulse racing. Short chapters racking up the unbearable tension. The first reveal, when it comes, smacks you in the face! Everything you thought you knew turned on its head… as Dr Anna Fox haunts the rooms of her old New York house that she hasn’t left for ten months, suffering with agoraphobia. And for understandable reasons. Separated from her husband and daughter, a separation that is heartbreaking. Anna is just too terrified to step outside. Uses her Nikon camera watching her neighbours, through her window, particularly the Russells, on the face of it a happy family of three and a reminder of what once was hers. And then…

The scream. It hurtles across the silence and Anna witnesses something - dreadful. What to do? Does she report what she has seen? Given her state of mind will anyone, including the police, believe her? Can she uncover the truth? Can she believe herself?

Haunting, harrowing, creepy, frightening - the last sixty pages or so are a real white-knuckle ride, really left me stunned and breathless. As Ruth Ware said: ”Hitchcock would have snapped up the rights in a heartbeat”. There is no doubt about that!

My thriller of the year…

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn is a psychological thriller that I could not put down. Anna Fox suffers from agoraphobia and has not been out of her house for ten months. She spends her time on the Internet, watching black and white thrillers, drinking wine and spying on her neighbours. A new family move into the house across the road and Anna finds herself watching them when they are at home. Then she witnesses something that turns her world upside down. The suspense in this book builds as the story unfolds and I was hooked until the last page. I would like to thank NetGalley UK and HarperCollins for my e-copy in exchange for an honest review.

Overhyped, seen-it-before, slow-paced, with too many elements re-used from similar thrillers, and a cheesy psychopath-confesses-for-no-good-reason ending. It's a shame as Finn writes fluently but this is plotting by numbers. Not for me - sorry!

Thank you to Netgalley, Harper Collins and AJ Finn for my ARC of The Woman in the Window already named thriller of 2018 and it's easy to see why.
Dr Anna Fox hasn't left her house in 10 months. She suffers with agoraphobia and the thought of the wide open spaces outside fill her with terror. Instead, she sits at home taking medication, drinking a lot of red wine, watching old movies and spying on her neighbours. None of them notice her sat in her window, until the Russell's move in across the park. Anna witnesses something at their house that she shouldn't have seen, and people believe couldn't have seen. With her illness, drinking and reliance on medication, who will believe her?

I never like the 'for fans of...'insert well known thriller here' kind of books but I would definitely have to say that here is a book which is very similar to the likes of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. It is exciting, the plot thickening with every turn of the page, it is gripping, like literally unputdownable.

I can't really say anything else about the plot without giving it away because the whole thing is a massive mystery throughout and to say I was shocked when I discovered the truth/twist is an understatement. Absolutely breathtaking!

I’m adraid I couldn’t get into this book. The first chapter gripped me but from there on it was too bitty and I didn’t understand what was going on or the story that was being told. There was too much detail and not enough action.

I read this book last night in one sitting. If there is only one book you read this year, make it this one. I'm just sorry I couldn't give it more than 5 stars!

I will post this review on amazon once the book is published. This thriller is tense and effortlessly absorbing - the kind of book that you can't wait to crack open the second you get out of work for the day. I liked the main character and given that almost all the book took place in her house the author managed to avoid monotony or repetition in a way that not all thrillers dealing with agoraphobia manage. The twist about the the main character's family was really well-handled. I liked the first few Hitchcockian references but eventually felt that it was too heavy-handed. Overall I would recommend!