Category:
Adults,
Suspense,
ThrillerLanguage:
EnglishKeywords:
Psychological Thriller VoyeurismWritten by A. J. Finn
Read by Ann Marie Lee
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Publisher: HarperAudio
Release date: January 2, 2018
Duration: 13:42:32
A twisty, powerful Hitchcockian thriller about an agoraphobic woman who believes she witnessed a crime in a neighboring house.
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, mother, and their teenaged 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.
When she’s not observing the neighbors and photographing them with her digital camera, she’s watching movies, playing chess, and counseling other agoraphobics via an online forum. Then her obsession with the new family across the park begins to take over. When Anna witnesses a stabbing in their house, no one believes what she saw is real—and it’s entirely possible that Anna shouldn’t believe it herself. 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.
Narrator Ann Marie Lee delivers the tightly wound heroine with precision, increasing her pace and raising her pitch when Anna believes she sees an act of violence in a neighbor’s house. Lee makes Anna’s struggle to remain sane in an insane world moving and believable. Revealing Anna’s emotional back-story, Lee’s performance swings from tense to depressed until the past and present intertwine, and nothing is what it seems. A.J. Finn’s plot is filled with shocking twists and so many surprises that listeners shouldn’t expect to relax for a second. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award � AudioFile 2018,
The comparison given is Hitchcock, I’d say Ira Levin…..