{"product_id":"end-of-story-a-novel-isbn-9780062678461","title":"End of Story: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor fans of \u003ci\u003eKnives Out\u003c\/i\u003e comes a spellbinding psychological thriller from the author of the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Woman in the Window\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eI’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo writes Sebastian Trapp, a reclusive mystery novelist, to his longtime correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in classic detective fiction. With mere months to live, Trapp invites Nicky to his spectacular San Francisco mansion to help draft his life story . . . while living alongside his beautiful second wife, Diana; his wayward nephew, Freddy; and his protective daughter, Madeleine. Soon Nicky finds herself caught in an irresistible case of real-life “detective-fever.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eYou and I might even solve an old mystery or two.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty years earlier—on New Year’s Eve 1999—Sebastian’s first wife and teenage son vanished from different locations, a cold case that was never solved. Did the perfect crime writer commit the perfect crime? And why has he emerged from seclusion, two decades later, to allow a stranger to dig into his past?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLife is hard. After all, it kills you.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Nicky attempts to weave together the strands of Sebastian’s life, she becomes obsessed with discovering the truth . . . while Madeleine begins to question what her beloved father might actually know about that long-ago night. And when a corpse appears in the family’s koi pond, both women are shocked to find that the past isn’t gone—it’s just waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“The rocket fuel propelling \u003cem\u003eThe Woman in the Window\u003c\/em\u003e… is expertise. . . . Dear other books with unreliable narrators: This one will see you and raise you.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review on The Woman in the Window\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There’s something irresistible about this made-for-the-movies tingler. Finn knows how to pleasurably wind us up.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today on The Woman in the Window\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Superior.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker on The Woman in the Window\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As the plot seizes us, the prose caresses us. . . [Finn] has not only captured, sympathetically, the interior life of a depressed person, but also written a riveting thriller that will keep you guessing to the very last sentence.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post on The Woman in the Window\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Woman in the Window\u003c\/em\u003e is a tour de force. A twisting, twisted odyssey inside one woman’s mind, her illusions, delusions, reality. It left my own mind reeling and my heart pounding. An absolutely gripping thriller.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLouise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fans of detective fiction will be thrilled by Finn’s latest!” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author of Everyone Here Is Lying\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A real page turner.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A. J. Finn’s \u003cem\u003eThe Woman in the Window \u003c\/em\u003ewas a huge best-seller. \u003cem\u003eEnd of Story\u003c\/em\u003e is destined to be, too. It’s a mystery more than a thriller, and a tightly crafted page-turner. . . . The ending is a shocker, and you’ll want to read the book a second time to pick up the clues.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDenver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Finn is an assured, witty writer with a gift for entertaining description and sharp instincts about how many references to other mysteries he can get away with. . . . It could be dangerous to name-drop Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler and others. Those legends raise expectations and plenty of writers since them have invented compelling situations that they couldn't figure out how to resolve. Finn, however, knows what he's doing. The way he wraps up \u003cem\u003eEnd of Story\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e is so satisfying\u003c\/strong\u003e that it fits comfortably in that august company.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Given the grand surroundings and rich array of eccentric characters, comparisons to the Knives Out film franchise will be inevitable, but Finn cuts much deeper. More than a mere puzzle, this elegant symphony of ghosts and fog concerns the nature of storytelling itself—and the crucial art of crafting one’s own narrative. It’s a tour de force.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Finn has crafted a book that is fresh, intelligent and—best of all—delightfully witty…. Finn traps us in a maze that seems entirely built of dead ends. When the truth finally emerges, there’s only one possible response: Whew. I didn’t see that coming.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eEnd of Story\u003c\/em\u003e may be even more confounding and fun than its predecessor. . . . Finn is clearly making a stake as one of the world’s finest writers of complex mysteries, and I cannot wait to see what he has in store for us next.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookreporter.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Elegant, absorbing, full of Hitchcockian menace. Once again Finn reinvents the genre in spectacular style.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Apartment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A. J. Finn’s new novel is beautiful, intense, beguiling. 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