The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

After Gone Girl became a huge bestseller and a hit movie, there were inevitably going to be imitators. One of the things that Gone Girl did for the thriller was sort of spawn a sub-genre known as domestic suspense or domestic thriller. The only thing they really have in common is this central female character who is kind of looking below the surface of domestic tranquility and seeing these ugly things.

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