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Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train
Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey, India Fisher
A
debut psychological thriller about a woman who becomes emotionally
entangled in a murder investigation because of something she witnesses
on her daily commute.
Rachel takes the same commuter train every
morning and every night. Every day she rattles over the same track
junctions, flashes past the same stretch of cozy suburban homes. And
every day she stops at the same signal and she sees the same couple,
breakfasting on their roof deck, living the perfect life that Rachel
craves for herself - a lifestyle she recently lost. She looks forward to
observing this household every morning, even makes up names and
narratives for its residents. Then one day Rachel sees someone new in
their garden, and soon after, the woman who lived there disappears.
Unable
to keep this information to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to
the police, and in the process is drawn into the lives of the couple she
thought of as Jason and Jess but whose names - she has learned from the
news - are really Megan and Scott Hipwell.
But the police accuse
Rachel of being unreliable, and it's true that her memories can't always
be trusted. Plus there are the stories that her ex-husband's new wife
has been spreading about her. By the time Megan's body is found, Rachel
is in over her head, intricately entangled in the details of the
investigation, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she put
others in danger? Has she done more harm than good?
A
compulsively readable, emotionally immersive, Hitchcockian thriller that
draws comparisons to Gone Girl, The Silent Wife, or Before I Go to
Sleep, this is an electrifying debut embraced by listeners across
markets and categories.
