Genre: Suspense / Mystery / Paranormal
Book Type: Physical
Author: Riley Sager
Pages: 400
Publisher: Dutton (June 30, 2020)
Book Description:
In the latest thriller from New York Times bestseller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father’s bestselling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound—and dangerous—secrets hidden within its walls? What was it like? Living in that house. Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivalingThe Amityville Horror in popularity—and skepticism.
Today, Maggie is a restorer of old homes and too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father’s book. But she also doesn’t believe a word of it. Ghosts, after all, don’t exist. When Maggie inherits Baneberry Hall after her father’s death, she returns to renovate the place to prepare it for sale. But her homecoming is anything but warm. People from the past, chronicled in House of Horrors, lurk in the shadows. And locals aren’t thrilled that their small town has been made infamous thanks to Maggie’s father. Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself—a place filled with relics from another era that hint at a history of dark deeds. As Maggie experiences strange occurrences straight out of her father’s book, she starts to believe that what he wrote was more fact than fiction.
Alternating between Maggie’s uneasy homecoming and chapters from her father’s book,Home Before Dark is the story of a house with long-buried secrets and a woman’s quest to uncover them—even if the truth is far more terrifying than any haunting.
Thoughts:
Is there anything better than a thriller mixed with ghosts?! I loved this book within a book, full of spookiness, suspense, thrill, fear, pasts, lies, secrets, and of course – ghosts!
Every house has a story to tell and a secret to share…
Maggie Holt goes back to the house her family fled 25 years ago with the intention of restoring it and putting it on the market… Until unexplainable things begin happening that slow down the process. Maggie realizes she will not be able to sell the house, until she is able to confront her past, and the secrets hidden within the walls…
This was a great mystery/suspense/thriller! I loved how it was written, alternating past events through her father’s book, with present day. This was my first Riley Sager Book and I will for sure be reading his others after this! This is a must read!
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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