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★★★★☆ 4.07 • Goodreads

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Craved The Turn of the Key's tech-drenched psychological unraveling and that narrator you couldn't quite believe? Home Before Dark by Riley Sager knows exactly what you need next.

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Why It's Your Next Read

  • Memoir-within-a-novel = double the deception
  • Gothic estate secrets meet modern skepticism
  • Reality fractures w/ every chapter reveal
  • Inherited trauma haunts more than ghosts

If The Turn of the Key's smart-home paranoia and corrosive unreliable narrator kept you up at night, Home Before Dark delivers that same delicious dread—this time through a memoir you can't trust, a legacy estate with too many secrets, and a protagonist whose ambition blinds her to the rot beneath her childhood home's elegant facade.

...the real horror is always human.

Sager trades surveillance cameras for inherited trauma, but the psychological descent is just as ruthless. Every family secret peeled back feels like vindication for your cynicism about privilege and picturesque surfaces.

This is the haunted house story for readers who suspect the real horror is always human.

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What Readers Are Saying

"I loved every second of this creepy suspenseful story... I was genuinely scared at times" Gabby, Goodreads
"…delicious, soul-crushing, mind-numbing, exhilarating, and full of those “*** did I just read?” kinds of twists—the ones that pull the rug out from under you and leave you spinning." Nilufer Ozmekik, Goodreads
"this has "thriller of summer 2020" written all over it...so much fun" chan ☆, Goodreads

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