UNTIL TODAYĪnd then she sees something shocking. She's even started to feel like she knows them. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. You'll be surprised by what horrors lurk around the bend.'- USA Today 'Like its train, the story blasts through the stagnation of these lives in suburban London and the reader cannot help but turn pages.'- The Boston Globe ' Gone Girl fans will devour this psychological thriller.'- People is liable to draw a large, bedazzled readership.'- The New York Times 'Marries movie noir with novelistic trickery. 'Nothing is more addicting than The Girl on the Train.'- Vanity Fair ' The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since Gone Girl. The debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives, from the author of Into the Water and A Slow Fire Burning. Has she done more harm than good?īook Synopsis The #1 New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Book of the Year, now a major motion picture starring Emily Blunt. Rachel goes to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in the lives of everyone involved.

It's only a minute until the train moves on, but now everything is changed. Total black hours lost never to be retrieved.About the Book Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning, flashing past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stopping at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. I knew it when I looked into that dark tunnel under the railway line, my blood turning to ice water in my veins.īlackouts happen, and it isn't just a matter of being a bit hazy about getting home from the club or forgetting what it was that was so funny when you were chatting in the pub. But I know something happened on Saturday. What could I have done? Gone to Blenheim Road, attacked Megan Hipwell, disposed of her body somewhere and then forgotten all about it? It sounds ridiculous. I must have committed some terrible act and blacked it out. It had to be something to do with Saturday night. I'd spoken to police at the scene - it was clearly my fault. I tried to convince myself that they'd come to see me about my accident with the taxi, but that didn't make sense. I was in a panic by the time I got back to the flat last night. Megan is still missing, and I have lied - repeatedly - to the police. Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Guignol's Band I & II John Sommerfield: Trouble in Porter Street Pamela Hansford Johnson: This Bed Thy Centre

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins