Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. You'll want to read this one after dark, ideally with the wind whistling in the eaves and a window banging somewhere just out of reach. As the narrative flicks back and forth from Maggie's father's account to Maggie's own present day investigation, we gradually learn the truth about what went on at Baneberry Hall, taking in some very satisfying twists and turns along the way. What follows is a deliciously terrifying story. Inheriting Baneberry Hall threatens to revive the notoriety she has long sought to escape-but it also gives her the chance to find out the truth about what really happened there all those years ago. For her part, Maggie has never believed her father's account, and her uncertainty over the truth has poisoned their relationship. She has a complicated relationship with the house her parents fled decades ago, a house her father claimed was haunted in a best-selling book that inadvertently turned Maggie into a minor celebrity. When interior designer Maggie Holt inherits her childhood home, the ominously named Baneberry Hall, her feelings are mixed. So begins Riley Sager's clever, twisty, and altogether spine-chilling Home Before Dark, the story of a family, a childhood, but most of all, the story of a house-and a brilliantly spooky one at that. Every house has a story to tell and a secret to share.
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