1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Book of the Month Club Edition, Hardcover, 384 pages. Agent: Michelle Brower, Aevitas Creative Management. Home Before Dark (Hardcover) Published June 30th 2020 by Dutton Books.

Sager, who makes the house a palpable, threatening presence, does a superb job of anticipating and undermining readers’ expectations. Although Home Before Dark is definitely a slow burner, I did enjoy the pay off. He currently lives in Princeton, New Jersey Visit the author. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of USA Todays Best Books of 2020. Three weeks later they fled in the dead of night, an ordeal her father recounted in a memoir called House of Horrors. Twenty-five years ago, Maggie Holt and her parents moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. Under the name Riley Sager, he is the author of six novels: Final Girls, The Only One Left, The Last Time I Lied, Lock Every Door, Home Before Dark, The House Across the Lake, and Survive the Night. Every house has a story to tell and a secret to share. I had to keep reminding myself this was Sager and not a new-to-me author. Riley Sager is the pseudonym of Todd Ritter, a former journalist. I wish I could pinpoint what I mean by that but I can’t. Maggie, who still suffers from night terrors, decides to move into Baneberry Hall to get a better understanding of what happened to her and to determine how much of her father’s book was true. Home Before Dark is the fourth Riley Sager novel I’ve read, the first thing I noticed was that the writing was unfamiliar. Ewan later wrote a bestselling book about their experiences.

The Holt family had their own traumatic episodes in Baneberry Hall, including Maggie’s visions of a ghostly figure, which led to their fleeing one night. Maggie’s parents were able to buy the house cheaply, because of a recent tragedy there-the prior owner smothered his six-year-old daughter with a pillow before killing himself. She hadn’t realized that Ewan still owned the spooky mansion that Maggie, Ewan, and her mother moved into 25 years earlier. Interior designer Maggie Holt, the heroine of this outstanding supernatural thriller from bestseller Sager ( Lock Every Door), is shocked to learn after the death of her father, Ewan, that he has left Baneberry Hall, near Bartleby, Vt., to her.

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