Many thanks to Hodder and Stoughton for an ARC. This is a fast paced and entertaining read, a perfect haunted house mystery for the upcoming dark nights of Autumn and Winter that many readers will adore. Source: Publisher (Netgalley) Add to Goodreads. Sager expertly deploys many of the common tropes of the genre to seamlessly weave two timelines in a twisted, spooky and compulsive story, of secrets, of things that go bump in the night, with its ever building sense of dread and creepiness. Home Before Dark Published by Dutton Adult on June 30, 2020. It's not long before weird and strange events begin to occur, a nightmare where the present begins to echo and thrum with the shadows of the past and what Maggie's father had described and written of in House of Horrors. Unsurprisingly, many figures from the past and the locals are less than welcoming of her, given all the negative publicity the place had received as a result of Owen's book. Maggie makes the decision to return to Baneberry Hall to prepare and renovate it for sale, but also because she wants to know the truth of what happened so long ago. Her father is now dead, and Maggie has inherited Baneberry Hall. Her parents had refused to answer all the questions she had, advising her that the house was not safe for her and she must never go there. The book has been the the bane of Maggie's life, she does not believe in ghosts or in Owen's account of what happened, attributing her parents divorce and her testing relationship with her father to it. Read 11 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Her father, Owen, later wrote the notorious bestseller, House of Horrors, in which he documented the trauma and terrors, the spirits of malevolence and ghostly apparitions. 25 years ago, Maggie Holt was five years old when her family fled Baneberry Hall in the dead of the night after three weeks of living there, but she has no memories of this time. Riley Sager's latest is a spine chiller of a gothic haunted house mystery set on a sprawling Victorian estate in Vermont called Baneberry Hall, with a dual time line narrative, set in the past and the present.

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