Riley Sager
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Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie-scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to -- a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls. Lisa, who lost nine sorority sisters to a college dropout's knife; Sam, who went up against the Sack Man during her shift at the Nightlight Inn; and now...
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One train. No stops. A deadly game of survival and revenge. In 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson’s family. Twelve years later, she’s ready for retribution. Under false pretenses, Anna has lured those responsible for her family’s downfall onto a luxury train from Philadelphia to Chicago, an overnight journey of thirteen hours. Her goal? Confront the people who’ve wronged her, get them to confess their crimes, and deliver them into the...
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Real Horror Wears Pink
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Real Horror Wears Pink
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"The next heart-pounding thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager follows a young woman whose new job apartment sitting in one of New York's oldest and most glamorous buildings may cost more than it pays. No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen's new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one...
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It's November 1991. Nirvana's in the tape deck, George H. W. Bush is in the White House, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer. Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For Charlie, it's guilt and grief over the shocking...
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"Bells that ring themselves. Record players that turn on an play music to empty rooms. Ghosts that can climb out of wardrobes...Maggie Holt doesn't believe in these things, even though they are the details of the story that made her family famous. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved to Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent twenty days there before fleeing in the dead of night, an...
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The new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager in which a recently fired Broadway star flees to a remote Vermont lake house, only to find out that the area has a history of missing women. Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family's lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time...
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A Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier. The Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most assume 17-year-old Lenora Hope was responsible, the police couldn't prove it. It's now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at Hope's End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies...
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In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must contend with the long-ago disappearance of his childhood best friend and the dark secrets lurking just beyond the safe confines of his picture-perfect neighborhood. The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh's backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend and neighbor, Billy, fell asleep in a tent set...
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"In the new novel from the bestselling author of Final Girls, The Last Time I Lied follows a young woman as she returns to her childhood summer camp to uncover the truth about a tragedy that happened there fifteen years ago. Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their tiny cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. The games ended when Emma sleepily watched...
10) The Unknown
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In 1926, five women disappeared from a remote island in Vermont. Now, one hundred years later, it’s happening again.
Struggling actress Marin Keane is shocked when she lands a role in a major motion picture about the unsolved mystery of New Avalon, an island on sprawling Lake Faraday in Vermont. She’s even more surprised when she learns that the role requires a weeklong research trip to that very spot.
Because New Avalon isn’t...
Struggling actress Marin Keane is shocked when she lands a role in a major motion picture about the unsolved mystery of New Avalon, an island on sprawling Lake Faraday in Vermont. She’s even more surprised when she learns that the role requires a weeklong research trip to that very spot.
Because New Avalon isn’t...
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"Casey Fletcher, una célebre actriz que acaba de perder a su esposo en un trágico accidente, intenta escapar de su dolor y una racha de malas críticas cuando decide refugiarse en la casa de su familia junto a un lago en Vermont. Equipada con un par de binoculares y varias botellas de licor, dedica su tiempo a observar a Tom y Katherine Royce, la atractiva pareja que vive en la casa al otro lado del lago. Parecen ser el matrimonio ideal: Tom, un...
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"Aktorka Casey Fletcher zaszywa się na odludziu, w domu nad jeziorem, aby uciec od wszędobylskich dziennikarzy. Wciąż nie pozbierała się po tragicznej śmierci męża, całe dnie popija drinki na werandzie i wpatruje się w rozciągające się przed nią jezioro. Do ekskluzywnego domu na drugim brzegu wprowadziła się niedawno bogata i sławna para: Katherine i Tom Royce'owie: ona jest eksmodelką, a on potentatem technologicznym. Stanowią...
13) La sobreviviente
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"Lenora Hope diecisiete cumplió y a su hermana de una soga colgó. Con el paso de los años, el sangriento asesinato de la familia Hope se convirtió en una popular ronda infantil. Aunque todos asumen que la responsable de lo ocurrido aquella fatídica noche de 1929 fue Lenora, la hija adolescente, la policía nunca logró probarlo. Desde entonces, Lenora jamás ha hablado de lo sucedido ni ha salido de la mansión en el acantilado donde ocurrieron...
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"La peor tragedia del idílico vecindario Hemlock Circle ocurrió en la residencia de Ethan Marsh. Una noche de julio, cuando tenían diez años, Ethan y su mejor amigo Billy durmieron en una tienda de campaña en el jardín. A la mañaba siguiente, Ethan despertó soli: alguien había rasgado la tienda con un cuchillo y se había llevado a Billy. Desde entonces no se volvió a saber de él. Treinta años después, Ethan regresa a la casa de su infancia....
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"W 1929 roku siedemnastoletnia Lenora Hope została oskarżona o brutalne zamordowanie swoich rodziców i siostry. Policja jednak nigdy nie udowodniła jej winy. Jest 1983 rok. Lenora ma siedemdziesiąt jeden lat. Niema i częściowo sparaliżowana komunikuje się ze światem tylko poprzez powolne pisanie słów na maszynie. Kiedy do posiadłości przyjeżdża opiekunka Kit McDeere, Lenora składa jej ofertę. Wystukuje zdanie: „Chcę opowiedzieć...
16) W środku nocy
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"To miało być typowe lato w New Jersey. Gdyby tylko tamtej nocy nic sie nie stało... Pewnej lipcowej nocy dziesiecioletni Ethan i jego najlepszy przyjaciel Billy zasneli w namiocie rozstawionym na trawniku przy cichej, uroczej uliczce w New Jersey. Rano Ethan obudzil sie sam. Gdy spali, ktoś rozciql namiot i zabral Billy'ego. Chłlopca nigdy nie odnaleziono. Trzydzieści lat później Ethan wraca do rodzinnego domu. Nekany koszmarami i bezsennościa...
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Listopad 1991 roku. George H.W. Bush jest prezydentem, z magnetofonu leci Nirvana, a Charlie Jordan jedzie samochodem z mężczyzną, który najprawdopodobniej jest seryjnym mordercą. Charlie cchce uciec z uniwersytetu po tym, jak jej przyjaciółka zginęła z rąk Kampusowego Zabójcy, stając się jego trzecią ofiarą. Musi się śpieszyć, bo goni ją poczucie winy. Trafia na ogłoszenie Josha, który oferuje transport. Są dla siebie obcymi...
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"Jules Larsen nie jest w najlepszej kondycji. Tego samego dnia straciła pracę i przyłapała chłopaka na zdradzie. Dziewczyna zrobi wszystko, aby jak najszybciej stanąć na nogach. Oprócz przyjaciółki, której gościnności i tak nadużywa, nie ma już nikogo. Bartholomew jest jednym z najbardziej znanych i tajemniczych budynków na Manhattanie. Krążą plotki, że jest przeklęty. Mimo to wykupienie tam mieszkania jest prawie niemożliwe....

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