Building Suspense in The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn
Building Suspense in The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn

Summary/Abstract: The main ingredient of the story is the mystery, as the novel is always making the reader ask what is going on, as the narrator is unreliable. “What caused the woman narrator her agoraphobia”? and “Who did the crime, if there was ever one?” are the main questions prompting us to go forwards and forwards, deeper into the story. Existent research about the staccato style short sentences at the beginning of the novel which then change to longer sentences as the action becomes more problematic and turns toward detective fiction can be applied in order to explain how the story allows the reader to go fast through it, although it is a quite large novel, of hundreds of pages. The novel can be included in the category of problem-solving novels, as the reader tries to make sense of what is going on and who is the guilty character.

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