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 Nigh...
The Only One Left
The Only One Left
Synopsis
In 1983, home health aide Kit McDeere is sent to Hope's End, a crumbling mansion perched on the eroding cliffs of the Maine coast. Her new patient is Lenora Hope, an elderly woman left mute and half-paralyzed by strokes—and infamous. Decades earlier, a teenage Lenora was suspected of murdering her entire family, though she was never charged, and the rumor has followed her ever since.
Unable to speak, Lenora communicates by tapping out words on an old typewriter, and slowly she begins to tell Kit her version of what happened the night the Hopes died. But Kit carries secrets of her own, the house seems to shift around her, and the closer she gets to the truth, the less certain she is that anyone at Hope's End can be trusted—least of all the woman she has been hired to care for.
Riley Sager's atmospheric gothic thriller braids past and present into a twisting mystery about guilt, memory, and the stories we tell to survive.
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Genres
Characters
Kit McDeereProtagonist
A home health aide assigned to care for a woman suspected decades earlier of murdering her family.
Lenora HopeSupporting
A mute, half-paralyzed woman infamous for a decades-old unsolved family murder.
Places
Edition
The Only One LeftUnknown, JuneDuttonISBN: 9780593183229
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