Be careful what you watch for . . .
Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her familyβs 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 viewingβa tech innovator, Tom is powerful; 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 otherβand the longer Casey watchesβit becomes clear that Katherine and Tomβs marriage isnβt as perfect as it appears. When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey immediately suspects Tom of foul play. What she doesnβt realize is that thereβs more to the story than meets the eyeβand that shocking secrets can lurk beneath the most placid of surfaces.
Riley Sager returns with a voyeuristic page-turner rife with fascinating characters, ratcheting suspense, and surprises aplenty.
After the unexpected death of her husband, actress Casey Fletcher spirals into an alcoholic binge. After being fired from a movie, sheβs exiled to her familyβs lake house in Vermont, where she spends days with a glass of bourbon in one hand, binoculars in the other.
Across the lake, Casey spies on former super-model Katherine Royce and her tech-mogul husband, Tom. But when Casey saves Katherine from drowning, the two strike an unexpected friendship. She soon uncovers the glamorous couple isnβt all they seem, an understanding that upends everything when Katherine suddenly vanishes.
Intent on getting to the bottom of Katherineβs disappearance, Casey is desperate to dig out the truth and targets Tom as the culprit, but what she uncovers in the end is something far more frightening.
With themes of grief, love, friendship, and revenge, Sager once again freshens a familiar trope to deliver something wholly unexpected. Between the blur of Caseyβs bourbon benders and the unforgiving darkness of the lake, thereβs a heavy, almost suffocating feeling that adds to the already sinister and paranoiac atmosphere of the narrative. And as the story gradually unfurls, it soon becomes clear that everything you thought you knew was dead wrong.
Entertaining and suspensefulβthe perfect summer escape.
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