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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Finished: The Girl on the Train (Hawkins) A suspenseful, yet predictable, thriller about a young woman who lives vicariously through a couple she sees on their terrace every day as her train passes their home on her way to work. When she one day witnesses the woman kissing another man, she is outraged, and then goes to the police when the woman turns up missing. The problem is that Rachel, the "girl" on the train, is an unreliable witness due to her sketchy memory due to alcoholism, which is a result of her failed marriage two years before...which itself was a result of her inability to get pregnant. To top things off...her ex-husband began having an affair after she started drinking. He divorced her, married the mistress, had a baby girl with his new wife, and lived in the home Rachel used to share with her husband. Her home! And, of course, Rachel's old home is on the same street as the house that the couple lives in that she passes every day. Megan, the female half of that couple is not only missing, but turns up dead. All kinds of complications, suspicions and accusations occur before the truth is finally revealed. A very good page-turner, even if I did figure it all out pretty early on. :-) Oh, and I think I would have called it The Woman on the Train, since Rachel was in her late twenties, lol.

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