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The Only One Left

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The Only One Left

Written by: Riley Sager
Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Dawn Harvey
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Named a summer book to watch by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today, Oprah, Paste, Country Living, Good Housekeeping, and Nerd Daily


"Propulsive ... a dizzying Gothic whodunit."
New York Times Book Review

Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier.


At seventeen, Lenora Hope
Hung her sister with a rope

Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.

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

It’s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer—I want to tell you everything.

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

As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there’s more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor’s departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth—and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.
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Lots of twists to keep you guessing, this is my first Riley Sager book and I devoured it. Story comes together nicely, gave me chills at times and nearly brought me to tears at others - I’ll definitely be checking out his other books now.

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So many twists! Very satisfying ending. This was my first Riley Sager book, won’t be the last!

Great mystery, great ending

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Everything, WOW!
My favourite Riley Sager book, so far! The narrators were amazing! Suspenseful, shocking. loved it!

Wow!

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This was a fantastic read! I was surprised right up to the end! I had no idea it was based on real life events either so that was an interesting suprise!

Kept me guessing who was the killer!

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It was an ok book. I wasn’t super impressed with the story. I just wanted it to be over. I put it on 2x speed just so it would be over asap.

Meh, not what I thought

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