The Only One Left

Riley Sager

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Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier.

At seventeen, Lenora Hope
Hung her sister with a rope

Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope's End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.

Stabbed her father with a knife
Took her mother's happy life

It's now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope's End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer--I want to tell you everything.

"It wasn't me," Lenora said
But she's the only one not dead

As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there's more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor's departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth--and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.

Book Details

Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
Publish Date: Jul 26th, 2023
Pages: NA
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.69in - 5.82in - 1.22in - 1.61lb
EAN: 9798885789868
Categories: • Thrillers - Suspense• Gothic

About the Author

Riley Sager is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, most recently Survive the Night and The House Across the Lake. A native of Pennsylvania, he now lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Praise for this book

"Riley Sager's spellbinding The Only One Left captures you in its snares from its first tantalizing pages. A Gothic house of horrors, it carries you along effortlessly before delivering a symphony of twists so shocking it took my breath away."
--Megan Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Beware the Woman and The Turnout

"Riley Sager is one of my favorite authors, and The Only One Left might be his best yet. Not only is it a deliciously Gothic thrill ride featuring two of my favorite things (Creepy Houses and Murderous Ladies), but it also asks big questions about grief, loss, and the secrets we keep even from those closest to us. Fun, scary, and so absorbing I almost missed a flight because I was trying to read just one more chapter, The Only One Left is one hell of a read!"
--Rachel Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs

"The Only One Left is Gothic horror at its very best--a crumbling mansion by the sea, dripping with blood, secrets, and forbidden romance--and it's a thriller that will keep you guessing to the end. Riley Sager, king of twists, has done it again. I couldn't put this book down."
--Ana Reyes, New York Times bestselling author of The House in the Pines

"Riley Sager fans can count on the author to deliver page-turning thrillers like The House Across the Lake and Lock Every Door, and The Only One Left is no exception."
--Country Living, "23 Best Spring Books for Adults to Add to Your 2023 Reading List"

"Always master of suspense, Sager had me gasping out loud and listening for sounds in my house. I loved this book and it may even be my new favorite of Sager's."
--Mystery and Suspense Magazine