The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
I read this in one sitting because I had to find out what was happening and get to the resolution of the situation so I could get some peace and move on.
It's a lot like Gone Girl (I'm saying that when I only saw the movie). A wife of a slightly shady guy in a nice big home in London goes missing, and he's a suspect. But things are off, and you're not quite sure what to believe.
There's a woman named Rachel who used to watch them in their house from the train. Rachel used to live a few doors down but her husband cheated and blamed it on her alcoholism. She drinks on the train, and at home, and basically everywhere, and blacks out not infrequently.
The night that Megan, the wife of the slightly shady guy, goes missing, Rachel was in the neighborhood super drunk. But she can't remember what happened because she blacked out. She wakes up at her house bloody and cut up, with a knot on her head, and she feels scared.
She keeps digging in to the situation, often in ways that are crazy. But she does get to the bottom of it, thank goodness.
General consensus: Gripping but I felt slightly cheated in how it was gripping. An important scene would use "he" or "she" instead of the person's name. With that one piece of information, the whole mystery would have been solved, yet it was withheld just to manipulate the reader.
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