The Only One Left by Riley Sager

Rain against the windows. A cliffside mansion. A story that refuses to stay buried. If you’re looking for a book to sweep you away on a stormy afternoon, let this one pull you in.

An instant New York Times bestseller, this Gothic chiller was named a summer book to watch by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today, Oprah, Paste, Country Living, Good Housekeeping, and Nerd Daily. The New York Times Book Review called it “propulsive… a dizzying Gothic whodunit.” High praise. And it earns every word.

Here’s the hook. In 1929, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast. Everyone suspected seventeen-year-old Lenora, but nothing was ever proven. Decades later, in 1983, home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at Hope’s End, the decaying cliffside estate where it all happened, to care for the now-elderly Lenora. Silenced by strokes, Lenora communicates only by tapping words on an old typewriter. One night, she taps out a chilling offer: I want to tell you everything.

What follows is a slow, deliciously eerie unraveling. As Kit helps Lenora set the truth to paper, the story twists in ways you won’t see coming, and the harmless woman in the wheelchair begins to feel like something else entirely.

For our fellow Mainers, there’s an extra thrill in seeing our salty, storm-tossed coast play such a haunting role. This is a book made for lingering, and for the kind of night when you don’t want the lights turned off.

A perfect pick for lovers of psychological suspense and atmospheric mystery. Come browse. We’d love to send you home with it.

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