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Packed with sharp characters, psychological suspense, and gasp-worthy plot twists, Riley Sager’s The House Across the Lake is the ultimate escapist read . Sager’s debut, Final Girls (2017), was fun and beautifully crafted. His most recent novels—Home Before Dark (2020) and Survive the Night (2021) —have been fun and a bit rickety. Narrator Casey Fletcher grew up watching her mother dazzle audiences, and then she became an actor herself. While she never achieves the “America’s sweetheart” status her mother enjoyed, Casey makes a career out of bit parts in movies and on TV and meatier parts onstage. Then the death of her husband sends her into an alcoholic spiral that ends with her getting fired from a Broadway play.
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Beating on the door, he tells her he knows that she has spied on him and broken into his home. Tom claims she doesn’t understand the situation and should leave him and Katherine alone. I leave the back porch of the lake house, step inside, and shuffle to the cramped foyer just beyond the front door. Among them is a pair of binoculars in a leather case hanging from a frayed strap, untouched for more than a year.
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But the more they get to know each other—and the longer Casey watches—it becomes clear that Katherine and Tom’s marriage isn’t as perfect as it appears. When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey immediately suspects Tom of foul play. What she doesn’t realize is that there’s more to the story than meets the eye—and that shocking secrets can lurk beneath the most placid of surfaces.
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But then I think again about Len, dead for more than a year now, his body found crumpled on the shore of this very lake. But when I hook the life vest around her neck and flip her over, she doesn't look alive. Afloat only because of the life vest and with her head tilted toward the sky, she resembles a corpse.
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The reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. Casey takes Katherine/Len to her home and forces him to reveal where he hid the bodies of the three girls. She sends the information to the authorities, then tricks Len into moving from Katherine's body into hers and drowns herself in the lake, only to be rescued by the now-conscious Katherine.
A gust of wind lashes rain against the French doors that lead to the back porch. Both of us pause a moment to watch the droplets smacking the glass. Already, the storm is worse than the TV weatherman said it would be-and what he had predicted was already severe. The tail end of a Category 4 hurricane turned tropical storm as it swerved like a boomerang from deep inland back to the North Atlantic. Alcoholic actress Casey Fletcher has retreated to her family's cabin at Lake Greene, Vermont in order to hide from the press.
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She said there was a detour when she was on her way home from work when she saw a big white tent and knew something was wrong. The home sustained substantial damage, and a notice on the door Wednesday evening cautioned that the house was unsafe to enter or occupy. All the memories that Casey has been struggling to repress come rushing back in. Casey recalls the morning she found evidence of the murders of the three missing girls in Len’s tacklebox and, after drugging him, killed him by pushing him into the lake. Casey is terrified and determined to end Len’s reign of horror, believing Katherine has truly been possessed. Celebrity scandal and a haunted lake drive the narrative in this bestselling author’s latest serving of subtly ironic suspense.
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They make for good viewing — a tech innovator, Tom is rich, and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous. But the more they get to know each other—and the longer Casey watches—it becomes clear that Katherine and Tom's marriage isn't as perfect as it appears. What she doesn't realize is that there's more to the story than meets the eye—and that shocking secrets can lurk beneath the most placid of surfaces. Packed with sharp characters, psychological suspense, and gasp-worthy plot twists, Riley Sager's The House Across the Lake is the ultimate escapist read...no lake house required.
Her neighbor is the beautiful Katherine Royce, a former supermodel married to the CEO of a tech company called Mixer. The evening after she rescues Katherine, the Royces show up at her dock with an expensive bottle of wine. But when Katherine passes out in the yard, the evening is cut short, and Casey is left with some concerns.
Reviewers favorably compared the book to the classic film Rear Window and a movie adaptation is planned. The next day, Casey begins spying on the Royces with a pair of binoculars. Her voyeurism is made easy by the Royces’ glass wall that faces her house and allows her access to their lives. While watching, she begins to see disputes between Tom and Katherine that make her wonder about their marriage.
Rising from the rocking chair onto legs unsteady after three (or four) day drinks, I watch the lake's glassy surface again break into sun-dappled circles. I've been watching the lake at a mental remove, which happens when you've seen something a thousand times. "Listen," Wilma says after what feels like three whole minutes. This information about The House Across the Lake was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter. Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition.
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