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A.J. Finn's The Woman in the Window (2018) is a complete standalone novel. There is no sequel. The novel follows Anna Fox, an agoraphobic child psychologist who has not left her Manhattan townhouse in ten months, who watches her neighbors through her window and believes she has witnessed a crime — but who cannot be sure if what she saw was real. The novel is an explicit homage to Hitchcock's Rear Window. A.J. Finn is the pen name of Dan Mallory, a former book editor whose biography became its own controversy in 2019.
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A.J. Finn·2018·Standalone — an agoraphobic child psychologist who hasn't left her home in ten months believes she has witnessed a crime through her window; a Hitchcock-influenced psychological thriller
The Woman in the Window — Frequently Asked Questions
Is The Woman in the Window a standalone?
Yes — The Woman in the Window is a complete standalone novel. A.J. Finn has not published a second novel as of 2025.
Is The Woman in the Window similar to Rear Window?
The Woman in the Window is an explicit homage to Hitchcock's Rear Window — the premise is nearly identical: a person confined to their home who watches their neighbors and believes they have witnessed a crime that no one else believes happened. The novel also echoes Vertigo in Anna's obsession with a woman who may not be who she says she is. Readers who love classic Hitchcock films often find it enormously satisfying.
Is The Woman in the Window based on a true story?
The Woman in the Window is fiction. The novel has also been compared to a real case: in 2002, an agoraphobic woman named Julie Barnes reported witnessing her neighbor assaulted; the case bears similarities to the novel's plot and A.J. Finn has never addressed the parallel publicly. The novel was adapted into a Netflix film in 2021 starring Amy Adams.
Why is the narrator of The Woman in the Window unreliable?
Anna Fox is unreliable for multiple reasons: she drinks heavily throughout the novel, she is taking a combination of psychiatric medications that affect perception, and she has experienced a trauma that the reader only learns about gradually. The question of whether she saw what she thinks she saw — and whether the woman she met was who she claimed to be — drives the thriller's central mystery.
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