The Only One Left A Novel
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Penguin Books
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
20.06.2023
Verlag
Penguin BooksSeitenzahl
400
Maße (L/B/H)
23,5/16/3,8 cm
Gewicht
539 g
Farbe
Beere
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-593-18322-9
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Named a summer book to watch by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today, Oprah, Paste, Country Living, Good Housekeeping, and Nerd Daily
"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.
Named a summer book to watch by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today, Oprah, Paste, Country Living, Good Housekeeping, and Nerd Daily
"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.
Kundinnen und Kunden meinen
Bester Thriller!
Bewertung am 08.11.2025
Bewertungsnummer: 2648591
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)
Dieses Buch ist (und bleibt wahrscheinlich) der beste Thriller, den ich jemals gelesen hab.
Wer eine schaurige Atmosphäre mag und Spannung bis zum Schluss ist hier absolut richtig. Die Kapitel sind kurz, der Schreibstil sehr angenehm und das Setting macht es nahezu unmöglich, eine Pause einzulegen.
Für mich sind Plottwists ein entscheidender Faktor für einen guten Thriller und davon gibt es einige. Vor allem der letzte kam absolut aus dem Nichts und hat meinen Mund offen stehen lassen!
Größte Empfehlung überhaupt - ich wünschte, ich könnte es nochmal zum ersten Mal lesen!
A book with a fair amount of twists? Count me in!
Bewertung am 15.05.2025
Bewertungsnummer: 2491388
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)
This is the first book by Riley Sager which I've read and he didn't disappoint! The story started slow but I was soon invested after a few pages in and at some point in the middle of the book I was completely hooked. And what a bunch of twists there are! Most of them I didn't expect or foresee but especially towards the end they kept coming and at some point I was unable to put the book down because I just *had* to know what would happen next. Some people may say that there was too much going on at the end but I enjoyed every second of the drama unfolding. If you're a fan of a good mix between past and present, elderly people with dark secrets and supposedly haunted mansions, this is the book for you!
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