The Best Cliffhanger Endings of the Past 15 Years
Here
they are—the books that left us breathless in the last 50 pages. Some
are traditional thrillers, some whodunits and some roller-coaster novels. Which ones have you read?
By Dawn Raffel
9 of 17
The Girl on the Train
By Paula Hawkins
336 pages;
Riverhead Books
The Premise:
Riding the
train into London every morning, alcoholic Rachel—whose husband left
her for another woman—gets a daily glimpse of a couple who appear to
have the perfect life. But one morning, Rachel spots the woman kissing another
man; and, not long after that, the woman disappears. Rachel goes to the police,
but isn't taken seriously. Then she begins to doubt herself...
Why the Ending Is a Stunner:
If you still don't know what happens, we won't wreck it#8212;but boy, are you
in for a shock. Between this and Gone Girl, we’ve all begun to rely on unreliable
narrators for our fictional thrills.
— Dawn Raffel
Published 11/16/2015
