JaymeO's Reviews > The Only One Left

The Only One Left is Riley Sager’s BEST thriller to date! This twisty Gothic mystery will leave even savvy thriller readers gasping until the very last page.

Welcome to The Fall of the House of Usher meets Verity!

“At seventeen, Lenora Hope
Hung her sister with a rope

Stabbed her father with a knife
Took her mother’s happy life

‘It wasn’t me,’ Lenora said
But she’s the only one not dead”

In 1983, Kit McDeere lost her job as a home-health aide when one of her patients died under suspicious circumstances. Kit is given one last opportunity of employment, a job that will require her to care for Lenora Hope, the longtime suspect in the murder of her whole family. She accepts the job working at Hope’s End, a decaying mansion on a cliff, but soon suspects things are not as they appear. Secrets, lies, and deception run amuck in Hope’s End. Who actually killed the Hope family? Will Kit find the answers before the decrepit mansion collapses?

I absolutely devoured this book. I am a huge Riley Sager fan and had been disappointed in some of his more recent over the top thrillers. However, he got this one just right! If you read one thriller this year, make sure that it is The Only One Left! You will not be disappointed!

5/5 stars

Expected publication date: 6/20/23

Review selected for June 2023 issue of Library Reads. You can see it here: https://libraryreads.org

Thank you to Edelweiss, Penguin Random House Publishing and Brian Wilson for the ARC of The Only One Left in exchange for an honest review.