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After inherting a huge family mansion deep in the Vermont woods from her recently deceased father, interior designer Maggie Holt returns to Baneberry Hall to renovate the estate in order to sell it on the real estate market. However, Baneberry Hall comes not without a past. When Maggie was five years old, her parents had happily moved into the mansion but fled from it only weeks later, claiming that the house is haunted and a threat to Maggie's life. Unfortunately, Maggie herself has no recollection of the events in her childhood and thus mistrusts her father's account of the past. Inexplicable events during her current stay at the mansion unhinge Maggie's self-confidence though and lead her to question her own believes and down-to-earth sense of reality... Once again, Riley Sager returns with a stunning and bone-chilling horror thriller that will keep the readers sleeping with their lights on at night. In alternating chapters, we follow closely Maggie's stay at the mansion in the present and her father's past recollection of the family's stay during Maggie's childhood. The two narrative perspectives complement each other perfectly and manage to build up irresistible suspense as well as utter curiosity with regard to what has really happened at Baneberry Hall all those years ago! Sager's thriller is the embodiment of a classic page-turner and can be strongly recommended to all fans of the genre.

A very twisty, dark and atmospheric novel that takes its sweet time to unfold the truth of what happened and does an amazing job at keeping you on the edge of your seat. It's not overly original and 'mindblowing' but even so, it's an entertaining, gloomy and well-paced read.