Author
Riley Sager
Riley Sager writes thriller and gothic. We've read and reviewed 4 of Riley Sager's books, including Home Before Dark and The Only One Left, each scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
The Unknown
by Riley Sager
Riley Sager's The Unknown drops a film crew on the Vermont island where five women vanished in 1926, then dares the cast, and the reader, to decide if the new disappearances are sabotage or something the island never let go of. It's a gothic thriller that trusts its central image enough to make you sit with it before the killing starts again.
Home Before Dark
by Riley Sager
Riley Sager tells two stories at once: a woman returning to renovate the Victorian estate her father made famous in a bestselling haunted-house memoir, and the chapters of that memoir itself. The dual structure is the whole game, and Sager plays it for maximum doubt about which account, if either, to trust.
Final Girls
by Riley Sager
Riley Sager's 2017 breakout asks what happens when three women who each survived a separate massacre, dubbed "the Final Girls" by the press, are forced into contact after one of them turns up dead.
The Only One Left
by Riley Sager
Riley Sager's The Only One Left drops a disgraced home-health aide into a Maine cliffside mansion to nurse the woman blamed for a 1929 family massacre, a stroke survivor who can answer only on a typewriter. A gothic whodunit with a genuinely fair central twist and a collapsing house doing half the work.