Riley Sager

THE BRAND NEW HEART-POUNDING GOTHIC THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHORAt seventeen, Lenora HopeHung her sister with a ropeNow reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope's End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred. Stabbed her father with a knifeTook her mother's happy lifeIt's now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope's End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer-I want to tell you everything." It wasn't me," Lenora saidBut she's the only one not deadAs Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there's more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor's departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth-and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.

Millaista olisi asua oikeassa kummitustalossa?” Sagerin uusin on kummitustalotarina vinhalla kierteellä... Kuten kaikki hyvät trillerit, myös tämä teos pitää lukea vihoviimeiselle sivulle asti, jotta selviää, kuinka kuka teki kenelle mitä ja miksi.” Rolling StoneMaggie Holt on tottunut kysymyksiin menneisyydestään. Hänen lapsuudenkodistaan, viktoriaanisesta kartanosta Vermontin takametsissä, tuli maankuulu kummitustalo Maggien isän kirjoittaman kirjan ansiosta. Maggie ei muista tapahtumista mitään, muttei sen puoleen usko niitä todeksikaan. Isänsä kuoltua Maggie muuttaa takaisin taloon, mutta hänen tervehenkinen epäilyksensä yliluonnollista kohtaan alkaa karista kartanon nurkkien naristessa. Olisiko hänen isänsä kirjassa ollut sittenkin jotain perää, vai paljastaako kartano salaisuuden, joka on aaveitakin pelottavampi? Riley Sager asuu Princetonissa, New Jerseyssä. Hän on kirjoittanut viisi psykologista trilleriä, joissa tarkka ja eläväinen henkilökuvaus yhdistyy genren perinteiden raikkaaseen uudelleentulkintaan, tyylipuhtaaseen jännitykseen sekä yllättäviin juonenkäänteisiin.*”Romaani pursuaa kauhistuttavaa jännitystä, kirjallista säikyttelyä ja moninaisia käänteitä, mutta sen parhaat hetket vietetään hiljaa talon historiaa tutkien.” USA Today“Raikas ja aidon kauhun sävyttämä.” New York Times Book Review“Eteenpäin potkiva trilleri.” Washington Post”Vaikea laskea käsistään.” New York Journal of Books“Kunnianosoitus Amityvillen kauhukartanon tarinalle... Tarina sekoittaa psykologista jännitystä klassisen kauhun elementteihin ja luo karmaisevan lukukokemuksen, joka pitää lukijan varpaillaan.” Buzzfeed”Vangitseva ja monitahoinen sekoitus psykologista jännitystä, aidosti pelottavaa kummittelua ja oikuttelevaa muistia, ja kaiken kruunaa kekseliäs ja tyydyttävän villi lopetus.” Bookpage

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a most-anticipated summer book by USA Today, People, E News, Cosmopolitan, PureWow, CNN.com, New York Post, CrimeReads, POPSUGAR, and more The bestselling author of Final Girls and Survive the Night is back with his "best plot twist yet." (People, "Best Summer Books")Be careful what you watch for . . . Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family's lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing--a tech innovator, Tom is powerful; and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous. One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a budding friendship. But the more they get to know each other--and the longer Casey watches--it becomes clear that Katherine and Tom's marriage isn't as perfect as it appears. When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey immediately suspects Tom of foul play. What she doesn't realize is that there's more to the story than meets the eye--and that shocking secrets can lurk beneath the most placid of surfaces. Packed with sharp characters, psychological suspense, and gasp-worthy plot twists, Riley Sager's The House Across the Lake is the ultimate escapist read . . . no lake house required.

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a summer book to watch by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today, Oprah, Paste, Country Living, Good Housekeeping, and Nerd Daily "Propulsive ... a dizzying Gothic whodunit."--New York Times Book Review Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier. At seventeen, Lenora HopeHung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope's End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred. Stabbed her father with a knifeTook her mother's happy life It's now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope's End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer--I want to tell you everything. "It wasn't me," Lenora saidBut she's the only one not dead As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there's more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor's departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth--and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE MASTER OF SUSPENSESomething is lurking beneath the water's surface... Recently widowed actress Casey Fletcher has escaped to her family's lake house for peace and quiet. She's been happily losing herself in her thoughts and several bottles of bourbon, until the glamorous couple across the lake catch her attention. They look so perfect - just like Casey and her husband used to be. But is anyone what they seem? Casey has a detective sat at her kitchen table. She has a man bound and gagged upstairs. Casey will uncover dark truths so life-changing that nothing will ever be the same again. International bestselling sensation Riley Sager is back with his most ambitious thriller yet. With his trademark blend of sharp characters, psychological suspense and gasp-worthy twists, The House Across the Lake will shock readers from the first page to the last.

Hirmutav! Sõltuvust tekitav! Shokeeriv! Lisa Gardner Kuidas oli? Selles majas elada? Maggie Holt on sääraste küsimustega harjunud. Kakskümmend viis aastat tagasi ostsid tema vanema Ewan ja Jess suure Victoria-aegse häärberi - Baneberry Halli. Nad elasid seal kolm nädalat ja põgenesid siis keset ööd. Ewan kirjutas sealsetest katsumustest raamatu, mille pealkiri oli "Õuduste maja". Tema jutustus tontlikest sündmustest ja kohtumistest pahatahtlike vaimudega paisus ülemaailmseks fenomeniks. Nüüd, pärast isa surma, sai Maggie maja päranduseks. Tookord oli ta nii väike, et ei mäleta isa raamatus kirjeldatust midagi. Ometi ei usu ta sellest ainsatki sõnagi. Sest vaime pole olemas. Aga kui ta naaseb Baneberry Halli, et see müügikorda seada, ei võeta teda just avasüli vastu. Kohalikel pole sugugi hea meel, et Ewan oma raamatuga nende kodulinna kurikuulsaks tegi. Veel kõhedam on aga Baneberry Hall ise. Ajapikku hakkab Maggie uskuma, et isa kirjutises võib olla tõde rohkem kui väljamõeldist. Igal juhul ei taha keegi - või miski -, et ta majja jääks. Ja tema elu võib olla taas ohus... Sünge, hirmus ja käänuline lugu, mida ei saa käest panna. Seda tuleb lugeda ainult valges toas! - Shari Lapena Mis võiks olla põnevam kui kummitusmaja, mis kubiseb vaimudest? "Enne pimedat koju" on ühtaegu ületamatu ja õudne. Kinnitage turvavöö, läheb andmiseks! Selle raamatu juurde peaks käima hoiatus, et seda ei tohi pimedas lugeda. - Mary Kubica "Nutikas, täis ootamatusi ja närvikõdi... Mõnusalt õudne lugu... Seda peaks lugema pimedas, eriti siis, kui tuul ulub korstnas ja kusagil kaugel kolksub aken. Aga lambilülitit võiks ikka käeulatuses hoida. Seda võib vaja minna." - Ruth Ware Sa püha püss, mind pole tükil ajal üks süzheepööre niimoodi vapustanud! Hakkasin valju häälega naerma, kui tõde ilmsiks tuli, sest see oli nii vahva, kuidas mind oli nii puhtalt haneks tõmmatud. Raske on kirjutada raamatut, mis on ühevõrra lõbus ja hirmutav, aga Sager on sellega hakkama saanud - ja pannud pealekauba veel loo veatult kokku jooksma. Lummav ja meeleolukas, süzheepöördega, mida te raudselt ei oota. - Stephanie Wrobel Veatu tempo, osav topeltnarratiiv ja kõrgtasemel kangelane. Aga parim avastus on see, et mitte keegi ei kirjuta praegu nii hirmsaid raamatuid nagu Riley Sager. - Josh Malerman

Meggi Kholt nenavidit voprosy o svoem detstve i knigu, napisannuju ee ottsom. Kniga ne daet ej pokoja uzhe dvadtsat pjat let, s tekh por kak semja Meggi pereekhala v viktorianskij osobnjak Bejnberri Kholl i vynuzhdena byla sbezhat ottuda tri nedeli spustja, posredi nochi, chtoby nikogda bolshe ne vozvraschatsja. V svoem romane otets Meggi opisal vse mrachnye i misticheskie sobytija, proizoshedshie v osobnjake, i kniga sdelala semju Kholt izvestnoj. No Meggi ne pomnit nichego iz svoego detstva i ne verit ni edinomu slovu v romane. Posle smerti ottsa Meggi nasleduet tot samyj osobnjak i khochet podgotovit ego k prodazhe. Teper prizraki proshlogo gotovy vyjti iz teni i rasskazat Meggi tajnu Bejnberri Kholl. No gotova li ona vstretitsja s sekretami, chto podzhidajut ee v stenakh starogo doma? I chto, esli chelovecheskie postupki okazhutsja strashnee ljubykh prividenij?

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of New York Times Book Review's "summer reads guaranteed to make your heart thump and your skin crawl"; An Amazon Best of the Month Pick; Named a must-read summer book by The Washington Post, USA Today, Vulture, BuzzFeed, Forbes, Entertainment Weekly, CNN, New York Post, Good Housekeeping, E , PopSugar, CrimeReads, Thrillist, and BookRiot. It's November 1991. Nirvana's in the tape deck, George H. W. Bush is in the White House, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer. Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For Charlie, it's guilt and grief over the shocking murder of her best friend, who became the third victim of the man known as the Campus Killer. For Josh, it's to help care for his sick father--or so he says. The longer she sits in the passenger seat, the more Charlie notices there's something suspicious about Josh, from the holes in his story about his father to how he doesn't want her to see inside the trunk. As they travel an empty, twisty highway in the dead of night, an increasingly anxious Charlie begins to think she's sharing a car with the Campus Killer. Is Josh truly dangerous? Or is Charlie's jittery mistrust merely a figment of her movie-fueled imagination? One thing is certain--Charlie has nowhere to run and no way to call for help. Trapped in a terrifying game of cat and mouse played out on pitch-black roads and in neon-lit parking lots, Charlie knows the only way to win is to survive the night.

The New York Times bestselling author of Final Girls and Survive the Night ("a master of the twist and the turn"*) is back with his most unexpected thriller yet. *Rolling Stone Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family's lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing--a tech innovator, Tom is rich, and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous. One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a budding friendship. But the more they get to know each other--and the longer Casey watches--it becomes clear that Katherine and Tom's marriage isn't as perfect and placid as it appears. When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey becomes consumed with finding out what happened to her. In the process, she uncovers eerie, darker truths that turn a tale of voyeurism and suspicion into a story of guilt, obsession and how looks can be very deceiving. With his trademark blend of sharp characters, psychological suspense and gasp-worthy twists, Riley Sager's The House Across the Lake will shock readers until the very last page.

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a most-anticipated summer book by USA Today, People, E News, Cosmopolitan, PureWow, CNN.com, New York Post, CrimeReads, POPSUGAR, and more The bestselling author of Final Girls and Survive the Night is back with his "best plot twist yet." (People, "Best Summer Books")Be careful what you watch for . . . Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family's lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing--a tech innovator, Tom is powerful; and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous. One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a budding friendship. But the more they get to know each other--and the longer Casey watches--it becomes clear that Katherine and Tom's marriage isn't as perfect as it appears. When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey immediately suspects Tom of foul play. What she doesn't realize is that there's more to the story than meets the eye--and that shocking secrets can lurk beneath the most placid of surfaces. Packed with sharp characters, psychological suspense, and gasp-worthy plot twists, Riley Sager's The House Across the Lake is the ultimate escapist read . . . no lake house required.

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a most-anticipated summer book by USA Today, People, E News, Cosmopolitan, PureWow, CNN.com, New York Post, CrimeReads, POPSUGAR, and more The bestselling author of Final Girls and Survive the Night is back with his "best plot twist yet." (People, "Best Summer Books")Be careful what you watch for . . . Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family's lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing--a tech innovator, Tom is powerful; and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous. One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a budding friendship. But the more they get to know each other--and the longer Casey watches--it becomes clear that Katherine and Tom's marriage isn't as perfect as it appears. When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey immediately suspects Tom of foul play. What she doesn't realize is that there's more to the story than meets the eye--and that shocking secrets can lurk beneath the most placid of surfaces. Packed with sharp characters, psychological suspense, and gasp-worthy plot twists, Riley Sager's The House Across the Lake is the ultimate escapist read . . . no lake house required.

Henkiin jääminen kysyy tappajan vaistoa. Eloonjääneet tytöt on piinallisen tiivistunnelmainen jännitysromaani, joka nostaa hattua 80-luvun kulttikauhuleffoille ja esittelee eloonjääneet tytöt toimivina sankarittarina, jotka osaavat muutakin kuin kirkua. Kymmenen vuotta sitten Quincy Carpenter jäi ainoana eloon metsämökin verilöylyssä. Lehdistö nimesi hänet ”eloonjääneeksi tytöksi” samalla tavalla kuin asuntolamurhista selvinneen Lisan ja siivooja Samin, joka kohtasi tappajan yövuorossa. Quincy ei halua ajatella mökkiyötä ja onnistuukin siinä... kunnes Lisa kuolee ja Sam ilmestyy Quincyn kynnykselle. Riley Sager asuu Princetonissa, New Jerseyssä. Hän on kirjoittanut viisi psykologista trilleriä, joissa tarkka ja eläväinen henkilökuvaus yhdistyy genren perinteiden freesiin uudelleentulkintaan, tyylipuhtaaseen jännitykseen sekä yllättäviin juonenkäänteisiin.*”Tiedäthän sen kylmän hien, joka kohoaa pintaan kauhuelokuvaa katsellessa? Sellaiselta tätä veriroiskeista mysteeriromaania lukiessa tuntuu.” Entertainment Weekly

One passenger. One night. One road trip. One suspected serial killer behind the wheel . . .