| With his début novel, “The Woman in the Window,” from 2018, the author Dan Mallory achieved a pair of writer’s dreams: a No. 1 best-seller and a splashy film adaptation. And yet Mallory’s newly published second novel—written, like its predecessor, under the pseudonym A. J. Finn—marks something of a comeback, following the revelation of a series of bizarre twists in the author’s personal life. These came courtesy of the New Yorker staff writer Ian Parker, who investigated Mallory’s history in the aftermath of “The Woman in the Window” ’s runaway success. The surprises are simply too strange and compelling to spoil, other than to say that Mallory, who was thirty-nine at the time and had previously worked in the publishing industry, wasn’t exactly who he said he was. Looking at the tagline for his new book, “End of Story,” it’s easy to wonder how much it has been influenced by the fallout surrounding its author. “The past isn’t gone,” the cover tells readers. “It’s just waiting.” | 
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