The Girl on the Train: Paula Hawkins

This was a fascinating story dealing with unreliable characters/narrators. The story is told through the three female characters in the story; The woman who is murdered, Meghan, the new wife of a neighbor to the murdered girl, Anna, and the ex-wife Rachel, who is a drunk. Rachel has lost her job, due to her drinking and thinks she lost her husband because of the drinking as well. She continues to ride the train to town so her roommate won't know she is jobless and hopes to find another job soon. One day on the train she sees an unknown man on a neighbors deck with the wife of the house. She always noted this couple because they looked so happy, so she is distressed when the woman, Meghan, kisses another man. A couple days later she sees on the news that the woman is missing. She becomes entangled with the investigation and the husband of the missing woman when she tells her story of the "other" man. As a reader you believe Rachel murdered Meghan because she looks a lot like her ex-husband's new wife Anna. Rachael has black outs and is worried herself that she may have done something. The book gets messier with every page as each woman's life is told. The woman who seems happiest with her lot in life is the one who know the least amount about her husband. The murderer is not who we believed it to be, but the person who ties all three women together.