Riley Sager
Riley Sager
b. 1974 · From United States- Books
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Riley Sager is the pen name of Todd Ritter, an American author of psychological thrillers. He grew up in Pennsylvania and worked as a journalist, editor and graphic designer before writing full time. He adopted the Sager pseudonym for Final Girls (2017), which won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Hardcover Novel.
His later thrillers include The Last Time I Lied, Lock Every Door, Home Before Dark, Survive the Night, The House Across the Lake, The Only One Left, Middle of the Night and With a Vengeance; several have reached the New York Times bestseller list.
His books often rework classic horror and suspense premises — the final girl, the locked apartment building, the haunted house. Under his own name he wrote the Kat Campbell mysteries, and he published Things Half in Shadow as Alan Finn. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Riley Sager is a pseudonym for the American author Todd Ritter. He adopted this name to relaunch his career after previously publishing novels under his own name and the pseudonym Alan Finn.
All novels published under the Riley Sager name are standalone stories. They are not connected by recurring characters or plotlines.
Since all of his books under this pseudonym are standalones, you can begin with any title that interests you. Many readers choose to start with his debut, Final Girls, which established the atmospheric, suspense-driven style found throughout his later work.
While several of his novels have been optioned for film or television development, there are no major screen adaptations currently released. The author frequently draws inspiration from classic cinema, which often leads to his books being compared to films in their tone and structure.