The Girl on The Train

This is the book that was made into a movie!  It's very similar in title to the book I reviewed last week, "Girl on a Train".  Maybe they were both on the same train at some time?  Both books are set in England.  It could happen!

Rachel travels back and forth from London on the train every day.  The train stops almost daily at a signal across from a house with a beautiful, perfect couple.  While Rachel does not know the names of this perfect couple, she has named them Jess and Jason.  Every day she looks at the house and imagines how perfect their lives must be, and creates a fantastic, loving world where they live.

Two doors down from Jess and Jason is the house where Rachel used to live, with her husband Tom.  She and Tom broke up two years ago, and he now lives there with the "other" woman and their child.

One day Jess - whose real name is Megan - is found to be missing.  Convinced that the real Megan and her husband have the perfect life, Jess begins to dig deeper into their stories in order to discover what really happened to her.  The deeper she digs, the more she discovers about just how flawed they are.

Most disturbing of all is that Rachel has hours of time she can't account for on the night that Jess/Megan disappeared.  She discovers she was in the neighborhood at the time of Jess/Megan's disappearance, but she herself is incapable of remembering anything through the alcoholic haze.

Can she remember the truth behind that evening before the wrong person is arrested?