Hello and welcome back to ajcreads! I’ve been gone for a while, right? I was waiting to finish a book that truly energized me. I read all the time, but finishing books is not my strong suit during a certain time of year.

Anyways, let’s get to today’s book recommendation: Riley Sager’s The Only One Left.

Horror and thriller lovers will lose themselves in this eerie tale that reads like a ghost story, but really takes place in a topsy turvy 1980s setting that will leave you white knuckling the edge of your seat.

You will immediately fall for Kit, a caregiver accused of murdering her last patient and as a result she’s been ostracized by everyone in her oceanside town in Maine. Kit finds a potential kindred spirit in Lenora Hope, the septuagenarian she has been assigned to care for who has been accused of a triple homicide at her massive estate, Hope’s End, in 1929.

The question hanging over the book is: Did Lenora really kill her parents and sister? Will Kit untie the knots that make up this mystery and possibly see Lenora (now a disabled, paralyzed and mute stroke victim) brought to justice? With a cast of characters surrounding Lenora and Kit, all playing their own part in the mystery of that night when most of the Hope family was slain, it’s almost impossible to tell who’s really telling the truth. That is, until what is a satisfying and heart pounding end is delivered to the reader.

Riley Sager has no business writing something this good because now she has an obsessed Forever fan. You can expect to see her on this blog a few more times once I start reading her other novels.

It is skill like hers that as a fellow writer, I feel that I am way out of my league writing any kind of novel. Sager’s mind churns in a way that I can only dream of, and I hope to catch up someday.

You can read The Only One Left via Kindle or you can visit that beautiful brick (or cement) building we need to protect–the library. You can buy it here.

Merry Christmas to every single one of my readers. Be sure to leave a comment and like this post. And please be so kind as to subscribe for more book recommendations where I fangirl for about 500 words and fall into the depths of a book hangover. Sigh. I do this for you.

See you soon!