The Girl on the Train

The Girl On The Train is a dreary, slow burn of a novel which relies too heavily on drunkenness to conceal facts. Its a mystery with so few characters it easy to figure out who the red herrings are early on and decipher most of the outcomes.

It has too many a few too many coincidences which tie the story together and it lacks any real emotional attachment to the characters. What starts as a Hitchcockian thriller ends with a run of the mill murder mystery.