The House Across the Lake: the utterly gripping new psychological suspense thriller from the internationally bestselling author

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Soon after the incident in the lake, Katherine goes missing. Casey is determined to figure out what happened to her. Is Tom Royce behind this? After all, she has witnessed strange behavior in their house. That probably is just me and my reading tastes here speaking, but I guess I prefer my mystery/thriller without any monsters or ghosts or the like.

The film was based on a novel by Ken Hughes, High Wray, published in 1952. [2] It was filmed at Bray Studios. [3] Nicol and Brooke were the only Americans in the cast, although Brooke played a British character, as she did in most films. (Her mastery of a "posh" accent caused her to be typecast as British in Hollywood films starting in the 1940s.) [4] [5] Filming occurred at Bray Studios in Berkshire. [6] Reception [ edit ] Hmm...as a spoof it succeeded. If meant to be serious it may have jumped the shark in the last 25%. The basic plot is not original and has been done many times before. An alcohol fueled woman at her window giving her binoculars a workout, swinging them around from room to room, watching inside the half glass house across the lake. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. So far I am the outlier for this one so give it a try, you may love it!!l I will continue to be a fan of this author and will be on the lookout for his next novel.

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until about halfway through when a twist occurs that is pretty implausible with little explanation. Such a disappointment. Ugh! The ending was satisfying though, and it was entertaining overall. Unfortunately for Casey, after suffering a personal tragedy, she makes a mistake many people have made before her. She turns to the bottle to numb her pain. Final Thoughts: The whole time I wanted it to be Katherine and Boone having an affair and trying to bump off Tom because she didn't want to share her money with him anymore. Oh, Eli was working with Len and they murdered those girls. Sad that the ending he gave was the best he had going for him.

It is revealed that Len was the serial killer behind the three dead girls. When Casey found out, she drugged him and drowned him in Lake Greene. Since then, Len's ghost has been haunting the lake, waiting for a new body to possess. He took over Katherine's body when she fell in the lake and was rescued by Casey. There's some legitimate chemistry between Alex Nicol and Hillary Brooke. Good work too from Sidney James as the unfortunate husband, and Alan Wheatley as a detective. People who know me know I’m a relative newbie to the mystery/thriller genre. I tend to go for nonfiction and sci-fi/fantasy reads.Casey Fletcher is an actress and alcoholic who has been banished to Greene Lake by her mother after her drunken behavior on set alerted the paparazzi. She must lay low for awhile if she wants to save her acting career. However, she is grieving from the recent sudden death of her husband and instead drowns her sorrows in alcohol. This article is about the 1954 film. For the 2022 novel by Riley Sager, see The House Across the Lake (novel).

PS - the storm turns out to be nothing than a small rain storm 🤷🏻‍♀️. This whole time it's talked about and it goes flat. Overall, it might be coming to and end of an all high time author for me but I guess that's a plot twist in itself. I did enjoy the book and did like the author’s writing, but I felt this book and his previous book were some of his weaker entries. Certain things such as an aspect of the big twist and the constant drinking of the main character took me out of the story at times.The ending is straight-up crazytown, but it kinda-sorta worked on me. A fun trippy little thriller. Depending on how you break them up, there are multiple twists, but they can mostly be attributed to two different parts of the story, which is where most readers either love or hate it. The House Across the Lake very much feels like the blending of two books into one, which did give a slightly clunky vibe to the overall narrative and a feel that maybe too much is included, while also serving a particular type of plot twist (supernatural theme) that some readers like to know about before going in, as they don't enjoy it. Also, there is very much a dependence on the reader being denied certain information a la Agatha Christie style that ties into a twist, so if any of these things are a hard pass for you, you've been warned upfront. Katherine is ex supermodel, new philanthropist, married to Thomas, founder of social media company called “ Mixer”, such an intense, pretentious, absolutely another irritating character! The first part of the story has been told many times, but author Riley Sager does an amazing job of keeping the tension high and the pace fast… Despite Anson's warnings, Casey continues spying on the Royce home. She and Conrad begin to investigate the case of the missing girls. Casey's suspicions turn to Conrad himself when she discovers that Conrad was at one point a suspect in his wife's death. Feeling she can no longer trust anyone else, Casey takes matters into her own hands. She breaks into the Royce home and finds Katherine tied up in the basement, but still alive. Tom confronts both of them and "Katherine" explains that she is in fact Casey's dead husband Len.