Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

                                                                         

Home Before Dark is quite a thriller! It spooked me a bit and I don't spook easily! Riley Sager has a flair for writing thrillers and her words pull you into her novel. Be prepared to be obsessed!

Do you remember Amityville? If you don't  google it now because Sager obviously got some of her backstory from it and put a modern twist on this novel.

Twenty-Five years ago, Maggie Holt, just a young child fled her home of  Baneberry Hall in the middle of the night with her parents. Her father wrote a nonfiction novel about the families ordeal in the home. It became infamous and when Maggie Holt returns to renovate the home after her fathers death, the small town people aren't exactly thrilled to see her.

Things go bump in the night and the events of the book unravel as presented nearly word for word.

Maggie begins to question if the story her father wrote was indeed real as she previously had doubts about its authenticity. 

This is a book within book story (which is one of my favorite types and seldom done right!). Maggie's father, Ewan's book is weaved into the story and it has a very different voice and feel to it. Expect to get some spidey senses especially if you're reading past midnight and home alone!