Later on, after she returns from the hospital along with Detective Little, the Russells are summoned and Alistair presents a woman Anna had never seen, calling her Jane.Īnna is sure about the woman. She rushes to rescue her but her agora kicks in and she faints mid-way in the park. Matching the dots, Anna comes to the conclusion that Alistair had killed his wife after an argument. She remembers watching Jane and Alistair arguing over something a while ago. She remembers him saying that his father won’t let him have a cell phone. She remembers Jane’s son Ethan crying in front of her - terrible childhood being the cause. She remembers Jane’s husband Alistair coming to her inquiring after his son. She remembers Jane talking about her husband being a control freak. Her new neighbour and her latest friend, Jane Russell, is stabbed in her chest. 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.

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