Todd Ritter, ook bekend als Alan Finn en Riley Sager, creëert verhalen die diep beïnvloed zijn door de landelijke landschappen van zijn jeugd en de meestervertellers van de cinema. Zijn werk put uit de spannende sfeer van Alfred Hitchcock en het fantasierijke wonder van Walt Disney. Ritter verweeft verhalen die een gevoel van nostalgische charme combineren met meeslepende plots. Hij brengt een uniek perspectief in zijn schrijven, waardoor boeiende verhalen voor lezers ontstaan.
Eerst waren het er drie De pers noemt ze ‘The Final Girls’: Quincy, Sam en Lisa, een beruchte groep waar niemand toe wil behoren. De enige overlevenden van drie verschillende massamoorden. Ze zijn voor altijd met elkaar verbonden, vanwege hun verleden. Toen waren het er twee Maar wanneer Lisa onder verdachte omstandigheden overlijdt en Sam plotseling bij Quincy op de stoep van haar New Yorkse appartement staat, moet Quincy toegeven dat ze Sam en Lisa eigenlijk nauwelijks kent. Moet ze Sam vertrouwen? Of… Kan er maar één Final Girl zijn?
PRE-ORDER NOW! THE BRAND NEW HEART-POUNDING GOTHIC THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR. At seventeen, Lenora Hope was at the center of a shocking family massacre in 1929 that left the Maine coast reeling. While many believe Lenora was responsible, the police never proved it, and she has remained silent about that fateful night, never leaving the cliffside mansion where it all occurred. Now, in 1983, home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at the decaying Hope's End to care for the elderly Lenora, who is confined to a wheelchair and rendered mute by strokes. Lenora communicates by tapping out messages on an old typewriter. One night, she offers Kit an intriguing proposition: "I want to tell you everything." As Kit assists Lenora in recounting the events surrounding the massacre, it becomes clear that the story is more complex than it appears. However, when unsettling details about the previous nurse's abrupt departure emerge, Kit begins to question Lenora's reliability. The seemingly harmless woman in her care may hold dark secrets and could be far more dangerous than Kit initially believed.
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Survive the Night and Final Girls comes a tense and twisty thriller about a summer camp that’s impossible to forget—no matter how hard you try. Two Truths and a Lie. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and Emma played it all the time in their cabin at Camp Nightingale. But the games ended the night Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out into the darkness. The last she—or anyone—saw of the teenagers was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips.... Fifteen years later, Emma is a rising star in the New York art scene, turning her past into paintings—massive canvases filled with dark leaves and gnarled branches over ghostly shapes in white dresses. When the paintings catch the attention of the wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale, she implores Emma to come back to the newly reopened camp as a painting instructor. Despite her guilt and anxiety—or maybe because of them—Emma agrees to revisit her past. Nightingale looks the same as it did all those years ago, haunted by a midnight-dark lake and familiar faces. Emma is even assigned to the same cabin she slept in as a teenager, although the security camera pointed at her door is a disturbing new addition. As cryptic clues about the camp's origins begin to surface, Emma attempts to find out what really happened to her friends. But her closure could come at a deadly price.
THE BRAND NEW HEART-POUNDING GOTHIC THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Everyone believes that Lenora Hope is a mass murderer. When the Hope family was massacred decades ago, she was the only one left after that tragic night. Mute, paralysed and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora has never been able to tell her side of the story. Until her new live-in caregiver Kit brings her a typewriter. And with one working finger Lenora begins to type: I want to tell you everything. Real readers LOVE The Only One Left: 'Plot twists on plot twists! A story that keeps you guessing throughout' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Kept me guessing to the very end' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I literally couldn't leave this story alone' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The tension throughout this book is so intense it is breath taking' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I devoured this in a single sitting' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Laden with an abundance of twists and turns that are truly mind-bending' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The ending though . . . didn't see that one coming!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Riley never fails to disappoint me, now to wait for the next book...' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ And your favourite authors love it too... 'A master storyteller' ALEX MICHAELIDES 'Spine-chilling' RUTH WARE 'Twisty' SHARI LAPENA 'Addictive' STEPHANIE WROBEL 'Propulsive' ELLERY LLOYD 'Terrific' KARIN SLAUGHTER 'Shocking' LISA GARDNER
"Maggie Holt doesn't believe in paranormal things, even though they are the details of the story that made her family famous. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved to Baneberry Hall. They spent twenty days there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a horror memoir, House of Horrors. His tale rivaled The Amityville Horror in popularity - and skepticism. Maggie has lived her life in the shadow of her father's book, so when she inherits Baneberry Hall after his death, she returns to renovate the house to prepare it for sale. As Maggie experiences strange occurrences straight out of Ewan's book, she starts to wonder if what he wrote was more fact than fiction."-- Provided by publisher
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Survive the Night and Final Girls comes a tense and twisty thriller about a summer camp that’s impossible to forget—no matter how hard you try. Two Truths and a Lie. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and Emma played it all the time in their cabin at Camp Nightingale. But the games ended the night Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out into the darkness. The last she—or anyone—saw of the teenagers was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips.... Fifteen years later, Emma is a rising star in the New York art scene, turning her past into paintings—massive canvases filled with dark leaves and gnarled branches over ghostly shapes in white dresses. When the paintings catch the attention of the wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale, she implores Emma to come back to the newly reopened camp as a painting instructor. Despite her guilt and anxiety—or maybe because of them—Emma agrees to revisit her past. Nightingale looks the same as it did all those years ago, haunted by a midnight-dark lake and familiar faces. Emma is even assigned to the same cabin she slept in as a teenager, although the security camera pointed at her door is a disturbing new addition. As cryptic clues about the camp's origins begin to surface, Emma attempts to find out what really happened to her friends. But her closure could come at a deadly price.
What was it like? Living in that house. Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into a rambling Victorian estate called Baneberry Hall. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a memoir called House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon. Now, Maggie has inherited Baneberry Hall after her father's death. She was too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father's book. But she doesn't believe a word of it. Ghosts, after all, don't exist. But when she returns to Baneberry Hall to prepare it for sale, her homecoming is anything but warm. People from the pages of her father's book lurk in the shadows, and locals aren't thrilled that their small town has been made infamous. Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself - a place that hints of dark deeds and unexplained happenings. As the days pass, Maggie begins to believe that what her father wrote was more fact than fiction. That, either way, someone - or something - doesn't want her here. And that she might be in danger all over again...
They've offered you a luxury apartment, rent free. The catch: you may not live long enough to enjoy it... No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents. These are the only rules for Jules Larson's new job as apartment sitter for an elusive resident of the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile private buildings and home to the rich and famous. Recently heartbroken and practically homeless, Jules readily accepts the terms, ready to leave her past life behind. Out of place among the extremely wealthy, Jules finds herself pulled toward other apartment sitter Ingrid. But Ingrid confides that the Bartholomew is not what it seems and the dark history hidden beneath its gleaming facade is starting to frighten her. Jules brushes it off as a harmless ghost story - but the next day, her new friend has vanished. And then Jules discovers that Ingrid is not the first temporary resident to go missing... Welcome to the Bartholomew...You may never leave
"Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family's lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing-a tech innovator, Tom is rich, and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous. One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a budding friendship. But the more they get to know each other-and the longer Casey watches-it becomes clear that Katherine and Tom's marriage isn't as perfect and placid as it appears. When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey becomes consumed with finding out what happened to her. In the process, she uncovers eerie, darker truths that turn a tale of voyeurism and suspicion into a story of guilt, obsession and how looks can be very deceiving." [bookshelf.ca]
10 hours It’s November 1991. George H. W. Bush is in the White House, Nirvana's in the tape deck, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer. Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For Charlie, it’s guilt and grief over the murder of her best friend, who became the third victim of the man known as the Campus Killer. For Josh, it’s to help care for his sick father. Or so he says. Like the Hitchcock heroine she’s named after, Charlie has her doubts. There’s something suspicious about Josh, from the holes in his story about his father to how he doesn’t seem to want Charlie to see inside the car’s trunk. As they travel an empty highway in the dead of night, an increasingly worried Charlie begins to think she’s sharing a car with the Campus Killer. Is Josh truly dangerous? Or is Charlie’s suspicion merely a figment of her movie-fueled imagination? What follows is a game of cat-and-mouse played out on night-shrouded roads and in neon-lit parking lots, during an age when the only call for help can be made on a pay phone and in a place where there's nowhere to run. In order to win, Charlie must do one thing - survive the night.
