The Little Girl In The Window A Psychological Thriller

Bad Things Come in Small Packages When pregnant prom queen Misty Glass dies, no one suspects who’s responsible: Romy, a fourteen-year-old loner with a desperate crush on Misty’s boyfriend. Romy never meant for her “harmless” prank to turn deadly… Twelve years later, she’s a successful artist living in the city when a crisis forces her to return to her rural hometown. There, she starts a relationship with the last man she should—who has no idea Romy is behind the drowning of his high school girlfriend and their unborn child. Bad lady. Horrible woman! When a pale little blonde girl with eerily blue eyes starts hurling insults through Romy’s window before vanishing into the woods, Romy fears her past has returned with a vengeance. She’s never told anyone about the worst mistake of her life. So how does the little girl seem to know about it? Who is she? And how to stop her before she reveals Romy’s darkest secret? A new twisty, suspenseful psychological thriller from C.G. Twiles, author of the Top 900 Amazon Kindle bestseller The Neighbors in Apartment 3D, as well as The Last Star Standing, and Brooklyn Gothic. For fans of Gillian Flynn, Paula Hawkins, Shari Lapena. Praise for The Little Girl in the Window: “The last several chapters blew me away and left me saying, ‘I didn't see that coming’ more than once! This is another hit by C.G. Twiles.” —Goodreads reader “What can I say about this book, except it was bloody brilliant! What an amazing, unexpected twist. It sneaked up behind me, and whacked me upside the head. I saw stars—in this case, five.” —Goodreads reader “I couldn’t put it down!!! I had a couple of guesses of ‘who done it’ but I was totally WRONG and SHOCKED.” —Goodreads reader “This book is a long, winding road with twists throughout. An excellent read that will keep you wondering just what other secrets there are to be revealed.” —Goodreads reader “One of the best books I've ever read.” —Amazon reader Keywords: Thriller, domestic thriller, psychological thriller, psychological suspense, domestic suspense, suspense, mystery, noir

#1 New York Times Bestseller – Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, and Gary Oldman – Available on Netflix on May 14, 2021 “Astounding. Thrilling. Amazing.” —Gillian Flynn “Unputdownable.” —Stephen King “A dark, twisty confection.” —Ruth Ware “Absolutely gripping.” —Louise Penny For readers of Gillian Flynn and Tana French comes one of the decade’s most anticipated debuts, to be published in thirty-six languages around the world and already in development as a major film from Fox: a twisty, powerful Hitchcockian thriller about an agoraphobic woman who believes she witnessed a crime in a neighboring house. It isn’t paranoia if it’s really happening . . . Anna Fox lives alone—a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother, their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble—and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one—and nothing—is what it seems. Twisty and powerful, ingenious and moving, The Woman in the Window is a smart, sophisticated novel of psychological suspense that recalls the best of Hitchcock.

Includes an excerpt from This doesn't happen in the movies.

"A gripping tale of suspense, secrets, and the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood." —Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying If you loved The Twin and One of Us Is Lying, get ready for a heart-wrenching psychological thriller about a girl who knows her twin sister better than anyone . . . or does she? Taut and atmospheric, The Window will keep you guessing until the end. Secrets have a way of getting out. . . . Anna is everything her identical twin is not. Outgoing and athletic, she is the opposite of quiet introvert Jess. The same on the outside, yet so completely different inside—it's hard to believe the girls are sisters, let alone twins. But they are. And they tell each other everything. Or so Jess thought. After Anna falls to her death while sneaking out her bedroom window, Jess's life begins to unravel. Everyone says it was an accident, but to Jess, that doesn't add up. Where was Anna going? Who was she meeting? And how long had Anna been lying to her? Jess is compelled to learn everything she can about the sister she thought she knew. At first it's a way to stay busy and find closure . . . but Jess soon discovers that her twin kept a lot of secrets. And as she digs deeper, she learns that the answers she's looking for may be truths that no one wants her to uncover. Because Anna wasn't the only one with secrets. "Layered and compelling, The Window is a fast-paced mystery anchored by a bold and intriguing protagonist, and you won’t want to put it down until you’ve uncovered every last one of its secrets!" —Caleb Roehrig, author of Last Seen Leaving "Lyrical and haunting, with plenty of twists that kept me reading long into the night.” —Kara Thomas, author of The Darkest Corners

Your daughter is missing. Did someone close to you take her? Seven-year-old Beatrice has gone missing. Her mother Claire's whole world has been turned upside down in just one moment and she can't stop shaking. She's desperate to find her precious daughter, but nothing about the day she disappeared makes sense... The mother-in-law: Jill was meant to be looking after Beatrice. She says she didn't take her eyes off the little girl but her version of events doesn't add up... Claire has never got on with her, so why should she trust her now? The husband: He should have been with their only child. Instead, he changed the plans without telling Claire. She didn't think there were any secrets between them, but maybe she was wrong? The first wife: Laurel has always been jealous of Claire's family. Has her husband's ex-wife taken her daughter? Which one of them is lying? And who really knows where Beatrice is? From the million-copy bestselling author, this totally addictive psychological thriller will keep you guessing all the way to the final shocking twist. Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train, Gone Girl and The Wife Between Us. What readers are saying about Shalini Boland: 'WHAT A THRILLER!!!!... This one caused me sleepless nights because I couldn't put it down!!' Goodreads Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Oh my!!! Wow!!! Let's all hail Queen Shalini because this is another absolutely FANTASTIC book... A truly brilliant masterpiece' Little Miss Book Lover 87, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Sometimes home is the most dangerous place to be. All Cintra Coutinho wants is to win her family back. After she tells her teenage son a despicable lie, her husband asks for a trial separation. She must go six months without a single fib. That’s harder than it sounds for a compulsive liar. Cintra moves in with an old college pal, and befriends the sociable couple next door, who have a young boy staying with them while his mother is “in Europe.” Then she spots a note on their door: “I’m being held” written in a childish scrawl, with a drawing of a boy with a gun to his head. Add in the eerie sounds she hears through their shared wall, and Cintra suspects they’ve kidnapped the boy. To unravel the truth of what’s happening in apartment 3D, Cintra must return to her lying ways. What she discovers proves the most dangerous people can be the ones living right next door. Fans of The Couple Next Door and Behind Closed Doors won’t see this stunning twist coming. Praise for The Neighbors in Apartment 3D: “Mysterious sounds on the other side of a borrowed bedroom wall had me hooked from the get-go. Compelling characters, an unusual diagnosis, and a tightly-woven plot kept me glued to the story and to the protagonist, as she pushed through Brooklyn streets and through the lives of enigmatic neighbors. Twiles does an excellent job of balancing relationships, insights, and suspense, making The Neighbors in Apartment 3D one to read with your lights on and your doors locked.” —Susan Crawford, international bestselling author of The Pocket Wife and The Other Widow “Gripped me so tightly, I didn’t skip over even the most insignificant word.” —Book Rant Reviews “The Neighbors in Apartment 3D kept me guessing throughout the story and I enjoyed the character development as well. I would definitely recommend this one.” —The Towering TBR

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A superb suspense writer…Brava, Ruth Ware. I daresay even Henry James would be impressed.” —Maureen Corrigan, author of So We Read On “This appropriately twisty Turn of the Screw update finds the Woman in Cabin 10 author in her most menacing mode, unfurling a shocking saga of murder and deception.” —Entertainment Weekly From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lying Game and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes this thrilling novel that explores the dark side of technology. When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss—a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten—by the luxurious “smart” home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare—one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder. Writing to her lawyer from prison, she struggles to explain the events that led to her incarceration. It wasn’t just the constant surveillance from the home’s cameras, or the malfunctioning technology that woke the household with booming music, or turned the lights off at the worst possible time. It wasn’t just the girls, who turned out to be a far cry from the immaculately behaved model children she met at her interview. It wasn’t even the way she was left alone for weeks at a time, with no adults around apart from the enigmatic handyman. It was everything. She knows she’s made mistakes. She admits that she lied to obtain the post, and that her behavior toward the children wasn’t always ideal. She’s not innocent, by any means. But, she maintains, she’s not guilty—at least not of murder—but somebody is. Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, The Turn of the Key is an unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time.