Casey Fletcher has retreated to her family’s lake house in Vermont to cope with the loss of her husband, Leonard Bradley, and the consequent demise of her acting career. She finds solace at the lake, but across the dark calm waters, stands a glass house where Tech Titan Tom Royce and his supermodel wife Katherine live. Casey has started watching THE HOUSE ACROSS THE LAKE and what she uncovers in a seemingly perfect marriage is far more menacing than what she could conceive.
The loss of Len devastated Casey. Len was found crumpled on the shore of Lake Greene a year before. The waters of the isolated lake hold secrets, spirits, and some say ghosts of the past. Now Casey spends her nights drinking into oblivion and watching her neighbors across the lake. One day, she notices a person submerged in the lake, and Casey rescues Katherine Royce from drowning. Casey returns the confused Katherine to her husband, Tom, but the couple are acting strangely and Casey continues to watch them through binoculars. It’s not long before she sees cracks in the power couple’s marriage. Then one morning, Casey hears a scream and Katherine disappears. Casey is sure Tom is responsible. Enlisting the help of her neighbor, Boone Conrad, a handyman and recovering alcoholic, the two try and uncover what happened, but soon realize there may be something even more sinister occurring than a missing wife. Three other young women have gone missing over the past several years and there’s talk of a serial killer lurking in the Lake Greene area.
As a hurricane heads her way, Casey is running out of time to find Katherine. She doesn’t know who to trust. Who is detective Wilma Anson protecting? Is Boone Conrad really who he says he is? And is Casey’s dependable neighbor, Eli, really looking out for her best interests? Isolated on a lake in Vermont in the off-season with a storm and a killer heading her way, Casey must face her own demons and uncover the truth to survive the night.
THE HOUSE ACROSS THE LAKE provides all the thrills and chills of a Riley Sager book. There’s an isolated lake, voyeurism, murder, a serial killer, and a crafty plot twist. Sager ratchets up the tension and provides loads of atmosphere and suspicious characters. You may think you know what will happen next, but you’re wrong. The twists and turns keep coming in alternating Now and Before chapters until the timelines intersect into an explosive ending. Masterfully crafted for maximum effect, THE HOUSE ACROSS THE LAKE will keep you glued to the pages, suspending disbelief for a moment, and rooting for a heroine who doesn’t do everything by the book. Riley Sager writes great thrillers and his streak continues with his newest novel.
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 watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing—a tech innovator, Tom is rich, and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous.
One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a budding friendship. 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 and placid as it appears. When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey becomes consumed with finding out what happened to her. In the process, she uncovers eerie, darker truths that turn a tale of voyeurism and suspicion into a story of guilt, obsession and how looks can be very deceiving.
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