Fans of thrillers are an interesting group. We like to be tricked. We like to be toyed with, misled, tested. We follow unreliable narrators down dark alleys and along murky paths, and will keep following until we reach eventual illumination—redemption is strictly optional. We really like surprises, and we loved The Girl on the Train,… Read More »

PROLOGUE 1985 LYDIA GAZED ABSENTMINDEDLY outside the kitchen window, the bright May sunshine glinting off the dew-glazed sweet-potato vine that cascaded from the window box just be­yond the screen. It was barely seven thirty, and fifteen-year-old Jack and eleven-year-old Amy were already on the bus, making the forty-minute ride to school. Their last day before… Read More »