The House Across the Lake: the utterly gripping new psychological suspense thriller from the internationally bestselling author

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The ending is straight-up crazytown, but it kinda-sorta worked on me. A fun trippy little thriller.

One day, she sees Katherine floating motionless in the lake and saves her from drowning. They strike up a friendship, and Casey learns that Tom and Katherine’s marriage is far from perfect. When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey is certain Tom has killed her. Casey, along with her hunky neighbor, Boone, investigate on their own when the police fail to take her suspicions seriously.

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The only differences here are that Boone isn’t a local, my heart’s too shattered to melt, and there’s no such thing as happily ever after. There’s only happy for a short period of time before everything falls apart.”

After first refusing to go along with her plan to call it an accident, Mark agrees when Carol tells him that they will meet up again later and live off her dead husband's money. However, after the coroner rules the death an accident, Mark does not hear from her, but the still suspicious CID inspector on the case arranges for Mark to find out that Carol has secretly married another old flame and changed residences. Mark angrily confronts her, but she sneers that she only used him and that there is nothing he can do about it without implicating himself. Mark decides to confess, thinking that, although it will probably mean a prison sentence for him, it will mean the rope for Carol. Riley Sager is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels, most recently THE HOUSE ACROSS THE LAKE and SURVIVE THE NIGHT. His first thriller, FINAL GIRLS, won the ITW Thriller Award for Best Hardcover Novel and has been published in more than thirty countries. His latest novel, THE ONLY ONE LEFT, will be published in June. Wow! I have so many complex feelings about this book! Some parts made me scream “come on! It’s too far fetched and ridiculous!” when some out of nowhere elements hit you in the face out of nowhere! But some parts are truly entertaining, surprising which made me awe the author’s dark sense of humor! Why is there always some kind of actor in his books? The last one was a girl who dreamed of movies and now this one is an actress.

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Depending on how you break them up, there are multiple twists, but they can mostly be attributed to two different parts of the story, which is where most readers either love or hate it. The House Across the Lake very much feels like the blending of two books into one, which did give a slightly clunky vibe to the overall narrative and a feel that maybe too much is included, while also serving a particular type of plot twist (supernatural theme) that some readers like to know about before going in, as they don't enjoy it. Also, there is very much a dependence on the reader being denied certain information a la Agatha Christie style that ties into a twist, so if any of these things are a hard pass for you, you've been warned upfront. Celebrity scandal and a haunted lake drive the narrative in this bestselling author’s latest serving of subtly ironic suspense. In March 2023, it was reported that Netflix will adapt the novel into a feature film with Paul Feig set to direct for Berlanti-Schechter Films and Feigco Entertainment. [6] Reception [ edit ] This sends Casey off in a myriad of ways, trying to discover what is really going on in the house across the lake.