I LOVED the gothic atmosphere of the house that is tilting precariously above the crashing waves on a crumbling cliffside… It adjoins her patient’s, but still contains the uniforms and personal articles of her predecessor, Mary, who left suddenly in the night… She instructs Kit on the very strict routine she will be expected to follow, and leads her to her room, so she can get started. Baker, the dour housekeeper, assures Kit that no matter what Leonora may have done in the past, she is most certainly harmless now. Leonora is now silent, bedridden, and has only partial use of one hand. The one that nobody else will take, and the only one that she is being offered….to care for 71 year old, Leonora Hope, who in 1929, at the age of seventeen, was accused of killing both her parents and her sister in their cliffside home-although Police could never prove their case. Was it negligence, or did Kit assist the patient in taking her own life? Pills that should have been locked up overnight were left within reach of the suffering woman. It’s 1983, and home health aide Kit McDeere has just been cleared to return to work after a 6 month suspension she was given after a patient died on her watch. I am starting to feel as if I am marooned on OUTLIER ISLAND □️ Thank you to Edelweiss, Penguin Random House Publishing and Brian Wilson for the ARC of The Only One Left in exchange for an honest review. Review selected for June 2023 issue of Library Reads. However, he got this one just right! If you read one thriller this year, make sure that it is The Only One Left! You will not be disappointed! I am a huge Riley Sager fan and had been disappointed in some of his more recent over the top thrillers. Who actually killed the Hope family? Will Kit find the answers before the decrepit mansion collapses? Secrets, lies, and deception run amuck in Hope’s End. She accepts the job working at Hope’s End, a decaying mansion on a cliff, but soon suspects things are not as they appear. Kit is given one last opportunity of employment, a job that will require her to care for Lenora Hope, the longtime suspect in the murder of her whole family. In 1983, Kit McDeere lost her job as a home-health aide when one of her patients died under suspicious circumstances. Welcome to The Fall of the House of Usher meets Verity! The Only One Left is Riley Sager’s BEST thriller to date! This twisty Gothic mystery will leave even savvy thriller readers gasping until the very last page. 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. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer- I want to tell you everything.Īs 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. 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. 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. 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. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929.
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