Book Review: Girl on a Train

This is the fantastic, fabulous book that I thought had been made into a movie. (And it should be made into a movie!) While it is not that book, this edge of your seat thriller will grab you by your imagination within the first two chapters and not let you go until the heart stopping finale.  It's a mystery.  It's a thriller.  There's some self-discovery, and much needed closure.  Ye Gods, the more I read this book, the deeper I was pulled into this world.... and the ending... Who would have seen that ending?  I was not expecting this book to end in this way! 

Anna Rothman is a journalist traveling home from a holiday on the train.  The only seat open is next to a young woman.  A woman who speaks with her briefly before leaving the train - and then jumps in front of that train as it pulled out of the station. 

Anna's husband had committed suicide, and something about this young girl, and the way she looked at her as she exited the train told her that this was not a suicide.  This was something else. Something sinister and deadly.  Try as she might to put this behind her, Anna finds herself drawn into the world of this young girl who was named Ellie.  The more she discovers about Ellie, she is shocked to realize that not only do they have much in common - their lives had crossed paths - and finding the truth of Ellie's story becomes more than just a casual fascination as the same phantom forces that had chased Ellie begin pursuing her.

Can Anna bring closure to her own painful past by finding the answers to Ellie's story?