Best Thriller and Mystery Books of 2023
98 New Mystery Books That'll Have You on the Edge of Your Seat
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"Survive the Night" and "The House Across the Lake" author Riley Sager delivers a thrilling take on the insidious caretaker trope in "The Only One Left." In 1929, rumors in a small town in Maine spread about the murder of the Hope family and its sole survivor, Lenora Hope. Whispers fly that it was Lenora who murdered her entire family in cold blood and retired to a cliffside mansion where she still lives today. By 1983, in her old age, Lenora is only able to communicate through text, so she hires home-health aide Kit McDeere and reveals to him that she wants to tell him the entire truth about that night. As Kit helps Lenora write her story, the discrepancies in her version lead him to question whether the woman under his care is really in need of any help at all.
Release date: June 20