The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager

He admitted to killing the girls and where their bodies were. Casey saw him going into the neighbor’s house, followed him, and found Katherine, who said she was really Len.Ĭasey stole Len/Katherine from Tom and tied Tom up in the neighbor’s house, while she took Len/Katherine back to her own to question him. Tom had tied Katherine up in one of the neighbor’s empty houses while he tried to figure out what was wrong with her. His spirit crawled inside her one night when she was swimming in the lake. In a weird supernatural element, Len “came back” from the dead in the body of Katherine. She was the one who sent the postcards saying the bodies were in Lake Green. Casey knew and killed him, and that’s why she started drinking so heavily. In the process, she uncovers eerie, darker truths that turn a tale of voyeurism and suspicion into a story of guilt, obsession and how looks can be very deceiving. When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey becomes consumed with finding out what happened to her. But the more they get to know each other-and the longer Casey watches-it becomes clear that Katherine and Tom’s marriage is not as perfect and placid as it appears. One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a budding friendship.

They make for good viewing-a tech innovator, Tom is rich and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of liquor, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple who live in the house across the lake. Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont.

The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager