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

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Brandon gave a good overview of the plot in his review, so I won’t rehash that too much here. He’s read a few more of Riley Sager’s books than I have, so he has a better idea of what the author’s writing style is like, and I trust that he gave a good synopsis of the book with that knowledge in mind. Hmm...as a spoof it succeeded. If meant to be serious it may have jumped the shark in the last 25%. The House Across the Lake is a 1954 British crime film directed by Ken Hughes and starring Alex Nicol, Hillary Brooke, Sid James and Susan Stephen. A film noir it was produced as a second feature [1] by Hammer Films and shot at the company's Bray Studios. It was released in the United States by Lippert Pictures under the title Heat Wave. Obviously this book is incredibly difficult to review without giving away spoilers, so pardon my vagueness. What you need to know going in is that there are a handful of twists, and each one comes in a different way. The format of storytelling, which relies on short "Now" sections, lengthy "Then" sections, and a final "Later" section that serves as an epilogue of sorts, is structured that way for a reason. Casey Fletcher is a NYC-based actress, who having grown up in the industry, is used to a lot of drama.

Wow! I have so many complex feelings about this book! Some parts made me scream “come on! It’s too far fetched and ridiculous!” when some out of nowhere elements hit you in the face out of nowhere! But some parts are truly entertaining, surprising which made me awe the author’s dark sense of humor!Overall, I had a positive experience and recommend this book to fans of his previous books and fans of horror, thriller, and mystery genres.

Reelased to theaters as HEAT WAVE,THE HOUSE NEAR THE LAKE may be short at its 68 minutes running time length but it is a superior thriller that contains plenty of surprising twists and turns as it is as strongly written and superbly helmed by writer/director Ken Hughes(SEXTETTE,NIGHT SCHOOL,THE LONG HAUL) as it is splendidly acted by the cast as they are all fully perfect in their roles,resulting in THE HOUSE ACROSS THE LAKE being one of the 50s better latter film noirs.The final 1/3 of “The House Across the Lake” is a cross between “The Exorcist” and the Meryl Streep movie “Death Becomes Her” . … This is not meant as a compliment. Needless to say I did not enjoy this book but kept reading it just to find out how the author would tie it all together for a happy ending. And amazingly enough, somehow he did. So if you are in the mood to read about a crazy, nosey murdering alcoholic helping a possessed neighbor who is in danger of being killed by her husband who is later possessed before being killed by a woman who was formerly possessed by the spirit of her ex husband who she also killed, have at it. For me, I am moving on to a better book while I recover from Covid. Go into the book blind for a full experience. The clues are definitely there for you to piece together but I was still surprised. You will be questioning everyone and everything, making this book such a fun read." - Mystery and Suspense The women in these books are always so ridiculous. There is so outlandish and jump to conclusions so fast it's insane. I love how she's had like three conversations with this Katherine lady and suddenly she knows that she's been murdered by her husband because she's not returning her phone call. The movie was perfectly paced. The duration of the movie seems short, but it’s enough to get sympathy for the (not many) characters. There were lots of twists, but they all came at the end, one right after the other and mostly unbelievable. That’s o.k. I still had hopes for a stellar ending!!

However, I am always willing to try recommendations from friends and coworkers. On the recommendation of Brandon, I gave The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager a try. This sends Casey off in a myriad of ways, trying to discover what is really going on in the house across the lake. I’m still giving this a 3* because I enjoy Sager’s style of writing and this could have been more engaging if the twists had been more well placed throughout instead of all left until the end! Pleasant noir with all the tropes: femme fatale, voice over, and the deadly intent. The acting is fine by folks that I am too young to know. And it is short. as for the positives, i loved this book up until the main plot twist which is a little more than halfway. so i enjoyed more than half the book! and the talk of alcoholism helped me understand more about this struggle, which is great that the author shone a light on it. oh and there were actually multiple plot twists which was exciting. the characters each had vastly different personalities and i loved reading about each of them until, of course, the plot twist i keep mentioning (sorry!) i hope this review helps because i tried my best to avoid spoilers but i wanted to let you all know the genre of this book isn’t just thriller/mystery but paranormal as well.

At the beginning main character Casey Fletcher made me so irritated! I got it she’s grieving from a big trauma! She lost her husband but I didn’t understand the main reason of self hatred and choice to drink herself to death!