It goes like that, lazy and mundane, until one day she witnesses something she shouldn’t have. She spends most of her days watching old black and white suspense thrillers and American noir films, counselling people on the Agora website, playing chess, drinking, and watching her neighbours through her camera from her window. As the story proceeds, we learn that Anna Fox is a child psychologist, hit by a posttraumatic stress disorder, and is now scared to leave her house- an acute case of agoraphobia. A little while later she sets up for her nightly film - Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much. The story begins with Anna’s monologue as she looks at house number 212 from the windows through her Nikon D5500. I zoom in on her face, the eyes sprung wide. She folds her arms around his back, kisses him deep. She unlooses her ponytail, hair swinging onto her shoulders. I face the window again, Nikon at my eye. “Cross your fingers,” I say along with her. “Hold your breath.” I turn to the television.
Along with mystery lovers, this book ignites the liking of every film buff with continuous references to American Noir films with their dialogues playing as the narration. Finn's debut novel has become a New York bestseller in the first week of its publication. You can find all of our entertainment coverage here. Want to catch yourself up on all things Netflix? We know you do.
And who knows? Maybe you’ll learn not to trust anyone looking through windows…. Just pick up the novel for yourself and see what made Hollywood decide to make this into a movie. Look, we’d love to sit and give you all the details, but let’s face it-we shouldn’t have to explain it to you. (FWIW, there was a big controversy surrounding the book and its author in 2019, but that’s another post for another day.) While she’s busy drinking heavily and talking to other recluses on online chat rooms, she witnesses her neighbor across the street being stabbed.Īs is with every murder mystery, the book comes with suspects providing shady alibis, detectives not totally believing anyone’s stories, and a plot twist that, quite frankly, you’ll probably see coming about a third of the way through the novel. The book was actually published in January 2018, telling the story of a woman who’s terrified to leave her New York City house after getting into a traumatic car accident.
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