I found this book slow, boring and tedious. A 1/3 of the way through I knew who did it. This is the story of 3 dysfunctional women each with a different salve for her issues. The girl on a train is an alcoholic who drinks because she can't have kids. She ruins her marriage because she is so obsessed with the fact she is barren. She dreams of a perfect family life and fantasizes about the couple she sees while riding the train each day. She loses her husband to another woman. The other woman is clueless. She's so proud she won another woman's husband she blinds herself to the fact a cheater doesn't change. The woman who's killed uses sex to ease her pain from losing her brother and her baby. Neither of the husbands are very likable or sympathetic. Each of these women is self absorbed and self destructive to their own detriment. This novel should have been called a Train Wreck. What a waste of time and money. Other girls in my book club loved this and though it was suspenseful.

I really enjoyed this book. I didn't realize that this man had won the Edgar Award twice. The only author to ever do so. I had never read anything by this author before and I truly enjoyed this novel. He has published 5 novels and I intend to read all five. Three down and two to go. Love this man's stories.

The story overall was pretty good though I figured out who the killer was about 30% into the book. It turns into a page turner at the end. All members agreed it was a little graphic with the torture and one or two sexual descriptions. Most agreed that they felt it was surprising that this was written by a woman given the torture and sexual descriptions. I think these scenes didn't add to the story...actually they lowered everyone's opinion of the book overall.

The book starts out graphically for most of the members taste. The storyline picks up at the end but a number of our members couldn't get past the beginning and chose not to continue reading.

Got this book for free because I'm a prime member. It was actually another member in our group that recommended reading this book. Everyone in the group enjoyed the story. Kinda like a John Grisham novel. One lady in our group said she told her husband that it was a good story and she recommended he read it. She said he finished reading the book in one day. A good story that makes you think about what people are driven to become given a certain set of circumstances and how far they will go to protect those they love or themselves for that matter.