The House Across the Lake
A famous actress hiding out at her family's Vermont lake house becomes obsessed with watching the couple across the water, until the wife vanishes.
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Recently widowed actress Casey Fletcher is sent to her family's Vermont lake house to dry out after a tabloid year. With binoculars from the porch she watches Tom and Katherine Royce, a tech millionaire and a former model, until the morning she sees Katherine vanish from the dock.
The House Across the Lake was written by Riley Sager and published in 2022. Sager is the pen name of an author who has written numerous standalone thrillers including Final Girls, The Last Time I Lied, and Lock Every Door.
No. The House Across the Lake is a standalone Riley Sager thriller. Sager's novels share a sensibility but feature different characters.
The House Across the Lake is 384 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The House Across the Lake takes most readers 6 to 8 hours to finish.
The House Across the Lake is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.