CONFESSIONS ON THE 7:45

I really liked the premise of this thriller, the chance meeting on a train, a missing nanny, an unfaithful husband. There were so many great elements to this novel, and the characters were definitely interesting. I prefer my thrillers to be more everyday people, and the element of grifters and the strange side storyline felt a little unnatural to me.

Selena Murphy is commuting home from her job in the city when the train stalls on the tracks. She strikes up a conversation with a beautiful stranger in the next seat, who introduces herself as Martha. The woman confesses that she’s been stuck in an affair with her boss, and Selena, in turn, confesses that she suspects her husband is sleeping with the nanny. When the train arrives at Selena’s station, the two women part ways, presumably never to meet again.

But days later, Selena’s nanny disappears.

Soon Selena finds her once-perfect life upended. As she is pulled into the mystery of the missing nanny and as the fractures in her marriage grow deeper, Selena begins to wonder, who was Martha really? But she is hardly prepared for what she’ll discover…