The story behind the book is the most interesting aspect (spoilers)

Joe Wright’s adaptation of AJ Finn’s ‘The Woman in the Window’ is Hitchcock-lite that becomes a ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’-style slasher so suddenly that I thought it was a dream sequence or something.

However, without this derivative, forgettable flick I wouldn’t be aware of the New Yorker’s article about AJ Finn aka Dan Mallory, a guy who was fascinated by ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ and who lied about cancer, PhDs, the death of his family, job qualifications and sexual harassment in order to rise to the top of the publishing industry. It’s an engrossing read (and soon to be a film starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Mallory): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/11/a-suspense-novelists-trail-of-deceptions

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