Name: The Only one Left: A Novel
SKU: 54970407
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Author: Riley Sager
ISBN: 9780593183229

Type

Physical Book

Author

Riley Sager

Publisher

Dutton

Language

English

Pages

400

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780593183229

Synopsis "The Only one Left: A Novel "

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.

Riley Sager

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Riley Sager, seudónimo del escritor estadounidense Todd Ritter, es una de las voces más reconocibles del thriller psicológico contemporáneo. Su obra se caracteriza por tramas de alta tensión, giros calculados con bisturí y protagonistas marcados por traumas que nunca se quedan en el pasado. Alcanzó notoriedad internacional con Final Girls, novela con la que obtuvo el ITW Thriller Award, consolidando su lugar dentro del género y marcando el inicio de una producción constante y muy leída.

Entre sus libros más destacados se encuentra La sobreviviente, donde vuelve a explorar la fragilidad de la memoria, la culpa y la violencia latente bajo superficies aparentemente normales. Sus novelas han sido recurrentes en listas de bestsellers y se distinguen por una narrativa ágil, atmósferas claustrofóbicas y un dominio preciso del suspenso, demostrando que el miedo cotidiano puede ser más perturbador que cualquier monstruo.

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