Jordan’s Reviews > The Girl on the Train > Status Update

As soon as Rachel told the golf club story I knew the identity of the killer and everything fell into place.

When it's all over I'm going to review this novel, and tear it apart like I did with The Accident by Linwood Barclay.

I have no idea what the twist could be, so here is my possible list. Anna and Rachel are the same person! Rachel is a ghost and Scott can see dead people! Tom is the puppet master! Rachel has a split personality! No compelling motive has emerged at all.

Police have a suspect. There is evidence? I think it's unlikely. I don't see how Tom and Anna fit in. What about Mac? Rachel seems too clumsy to be the killer. So far the story is fairly mundane.

I am slowly stitching the pieces together. Rachel tells us a story that justifies her behaviour. Megan may suffer emotional abuse. Someone goes missing. No evidence or motive for murder I can see. We haven't heard the inner thoughts of the men yet. In fact they are still at quite a distance.

Spill over from previous post: On page 51 Rachel has a vision of herself harming Anna as seen in the movie trailer, as to whether this event actually took place, we don't know yet.

There is a time jump to a year-ago when Megan witnessed an argument. In the present (2013) Rachel blacks out after causing some sort of disturbance with her ex Tom. Not sure how Megan and Scott fit into all this. Maybe witnessing a murder from a train is a too clear-cut narrative.

I'm getting ready to read this book. Like I did with Gone Girl I will post my reactions as progress through. I look forward to seeing this on the big screen too. I looked back at my Gone Girl entires and saw how critical of the police I was. I'll take special note to see how they turn out in this novel. Here we go.