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

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Why does every Riley Sager book have to have some stupid man whose quote sexy show up in this girl's life and always have to save her in some way? But when Katherine passes out in the yard, the evening is cut short, and Casey is left with some concerns. However, Casey smashes the last remaining bottle of wine and kills Len within Tom’s body a third and final time. until recently, when a very public meltdown made her fodder for paparazzi and cost her a role she loved in a Broadway play.

With fascinating characters, a suffocating setting, and an intriguing premise, Riley Sager relentlessly turns up the tension on every page. Casey kept numbing her pain with more booze, self sabotaging, spying on neighbors, getting more dislikable person at each chapter! Recently, I was reading a book, Daemon Voices, a collection of essays about storytelling by my favorite author, Philip Pullman. They come up with a plan to tell the police that Katherine was just found coming out of the woods lost.Being alone however has only made her drink more and she finds herself bored and spending time on her porch staring out at the dark surface of Lake Green. 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. Also what was up with her judging the husband for eating frozen burritos when she’s drinking bourbon all day with grilled cheese? able to move quickly, super sensitive hearing, and able to see through a pair of binoculars no less, in the freaking dark.

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.I know that not every Reader is going to love Casey as a protagonist as much as I did, but I found her relatable and even charming in her own clunky way.

Side note: I thought the main character of the book was an old woman because that’s what the narrator of the audiobook sounds like. I did enjoy the book and did like the author’s writing, but I felt this book and his previous book were some of his weaker entries.Mark decides to confess, thinking that, although it will probably mean a prison sentence for him, it will mean the rope for Carol.

Things go awry when the super model wife goes missing in strange circumstances not long after Casey saved her from drowning. I felt that many situations involving the main protagonist’s drinking adventures, Casey, could have been truncated to make this novel tighter and a better read. I’m all about a great story and the development of characters, but why explain a situation and then have that same situation repeated all over again in dialogue?

He then gets in his car and drives to her house while she scrambles to lock the doors and turn off the lights. A new Sager book is something to look forward to every summer, and while I hope next year’s is not quite so bonkers, I’ll definitely be reading it. Casey did feel more complex with different motivations and traumas that impacted her personality with her biggest flaw being an alcoholic. Casey is a mourning alcoholic trying to cope with the death of her husband by staying at her lake house. Yes, it does contain recognizable elements, plot points and themes that have been done better in other films.