The House Across the Lake: the utterly gripping new psychological suspense thriller from the internationally bestselling author

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He acknowledges that anyone can dream up a plot twist, but the "hard part is making it work in a way that feels organic to the story that’s being told while also playing fair with the reader. To be honest, up to the 70% mark, the story seemed formulaic –alcoholic protagonist/unreliable narrator, Rear Window style snooping into a neighbor’s window witnessing an altercation of sorts between a couple in a presumably troubled marriage, the wife goes missing and then alcoholic nosy neighbor becomes alcoholic super sleuth et cetera et cetera. in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter. It’s his mannerisms, his speech patterns, and his memories that come out of Katherine, including one that only he and Casey know: that Casey murdered him.

It starts out creepy, fizzles out tremendously for a huge chunk of the novel, and by the time things get creepy again, it happened a lot later than it should have. And for some reason he ends up having to ferry some party guests over to the house of a wealthy man and his femme fatale trophy wife. She has like 8 or 12 drinks and she's able to tow across a lake during a storm that's turned the water choppy.The House Across the Lake” by Riley Sager starts out pretty interesting but as you keep reading, it starts to drag on. I make jokes because it’s easier to pretend I’m not feeling what I’m feeling than to actually feel it. Overall, it might be coming to and end of an all high time author for me but I guess that's a plot twist in itself.

An audiobook adaptation narrated by Bernadette Dunne was released simultaneously through Penguin Audio. until recently, when a very public meltdown made her fodder for paparazzi and cost her a role she loved in a Broadway play. I also kind of figured that Eli either was involved in the actual killing of Len or complicit in helping Casey, but instead he was used as a red herring. While watching, she begins to see disputes between Tom and Katherine that make her wonder about their marriage. Casey kept numbing her pain with more booze, self sabotaging, spying on neighbors, getting more dislikable person at each chapter!Bernadette Dunne is a wonderful narrator (We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Haunting of Hill House, Memoirs of a Geisha) but she's not the right voice for a 35-year-old actress. Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. They make for good viewing—a tech innovator, Tom is powerful; and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous. I enjoyed Survive the Night while most friends didn't so maybe that's the case for this one as well. With his signature-style, Riley Sager has spun another web of intrigue so delicious even Alfred Hitchcock would be giving it two thumbs up!

He’s read a few more of Riley Sager’s books than I have, so he has a better idea of what the author’s writing style is like, and I trust that he gave a good synopsis of the book with that knowledge in mind. Boone tells her to eat food and she'll feel better - she does - and now she is shoveling the food down. Did the author intend this to be a serious thriller or is it a campy homage to certain books/movies (that would be spoilers if I named them all)?This time she was reading into the fact that the wife leaving in the house across the lake would go swim without her wedding ring.

Speaking of surprises, I did not suspect Casey’s involvement in all of this as much as I should have. It would be unfair to say too much about what happens next, but creepy coincidences start piling up, and eventually, Casey has to face the possibility that maybe some of the eerie legends about Lake Greene might have some truth to them.

After the disappointment that was Survive the freaking Night, I was prayingggg that this would be a welcome change. Packed with sharp characters, psychological suspense, and gasp-worthy plot twists, Riley Sager's The House Across the Lake is the ultimate escapist read.