Although Casey is drawn to Boone, she still feels compelled to go home alone and binge drink to avoid the memories at the edges of her mind. I like that the main character, Mark, isn’t overly good nor bad, he is just a human who makes is tempted like everyone else. If you’ve read any of my previous reviews, you’ll know that I don’t mind OTT - give me all the drama and theatrics. I couldn’t help but think of this song as disgraced former actress, Casey Fletcher spends her days and nights, in a “bourbon haze” drinking to forget all that happened over the past year. until recently, when a very public meltdown made her fodder for paparazzi and cost her a role she loved in a Broadway play.

Readymade Brit-noir posturing about a loquacious schmuck set-up to kill a cool blonde's milquetoast husband. A bit o' Hammer noir, The House Across the Lake gestures toward several better — and better known — films in the genre (things like Double Indemnity, and The Postman Always Rings Twice), its connection to which ultimately only serves to highlight its own weaknesses. The lakehouse does not provide the much hoped for solace, but armed with her binoculars and the inevitable drink, she finds her interest snagged by the couple in the house across the lake.This time she was reading into the fact that the wife leaving in the house across the lake would go swim without her wedding ring. With his trademark blend of sharp characters, psychological suspense and gasp-worthy twists, Riley Sager’s The House Across the Lakewill shock readers until the very last page. He shows up at Casey's house doing this but with a wine bottle because what couldn't be a whiter thing to do. It just felt very unbelievable and took me out of the reading experience entirely, which I’ve dealt with in the past with Sager in “Survive the Night” with unrealistic situations and endings that would never, ever happen in the real world. When I first saw I had been accepted for the arc of this, I couldn’t contain my excitement and yes, I dropped all other current reads to get to it!

After the disappointment that was Survive the freaking Night, I was prayingggg that this would be a welcome change. S./British film noir that has an American ex-patriate(Alex Nicol[THE SCREAMING SKULL,BLOODY MAMA,A*P*E]) who finds himself lured under the icy charms of his wealthy neighbor(Hillary Brooke[MINISTRY OF FEAR,THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH[1956]]) as she allures him to follows her path while she's involved in a series of murders. Boone tells her to eat food and she'll feel better - she does - and now she is shoveling the food down. Didn’t Katherine tell her she kept paying everything for her husband’s social media app and he wouldn’t let her go without a fight.They come up with a plan to tell the police that Katherine was just found coming out of the woods lost.

But Tom tells Casey that Katherine is not herself, that she has been possessed by the spirit of someone else.

She's been happily losing herself in her thoughts and several bottles of bourbon, until the glamorous couple across the lake catch her attention. The couple is "so at odds that it sucks all energy from the area, making the porch seem stuffy and crowded.

And for some reason he ends up having to ferry some party guests over to the house of a wealthy man and his femme fatale trophy wife. His first thriller, FINAL GIRLS, won the ITW Thriller Award for Best Hardcover Novel and has been published in more than thirty countries. It made things confusing for me as a reader since I didn’t have the physical copy of the book on hand. Did the author intend this to be a serious thriller or is it a campy homage to certain books/movies (that would be spoilers if I named them all)?

She is lying though, even the glassy eyed moose head mounted on the wall seems to taunt her, like everyone, it is judging her too.