The Only One Left -- Riley Sager, Hardcover

"Propulsive ... a dizzying Gothic whodunit."
--New York Times Book Review

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.

Author: Riley Sager
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 06/20/2023
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780593183229

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2023 pg. 6
Publishers Weekly 04/17/2023
Booklist 05/01/2023 pg. 34
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2023
Library Journal 06/09/2023 pg. 1
Shelf Awareness 06/23/2023

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.