One of the things I loved the most about this one is the imagery. It was similar to an Agatha Christie novel where even the innocent are guilty of something. There were a lot of breadcrumbs early on in the story that I picked up on and a lot of peculiar behavior by some of the potential suspects.

I wouldn't call this the greatest mystery book, but I enjoyed reading it and trying to figure out how Nora's past caught up to her. It didn't though, so I was slightly disappointed there. the ghost in the cabinet in the dark room upstairs in the dark house at the end of the road in the dark wood. Honestly, I expected it to follow that same story in a way. The children's story with the same title is a personal favorite and one of the first books my daughter learned to read on her own. This is a much, much darker tale of a murder, suspense, and betrayal.Īnother hyped book (I've been suckered in lately), this one didn't let me down either. Okay, I'm not talking about the children's story here, which is good in its own right. Includes an excerpt from Ruth Ware's The Lying Game!Ī Simon & Schuster audio production. Watson's riveting national sensation Before I Go to Sleep, this gripping literary debut from UK novelist Ruth Ware will leave you on the edge of your seat through the very last second. In the tradition of Paula Hawkins' instant New York Times best seller The Girl on the Train and S. Working to uncover secrets, reveal motives, and find answers, Nora (Lee) must revisit parts of herself that she would much rather leave buried where they belong: in the past. Wondering not 'what happened?' but 'what have I done?', Nora (Lee) tries to piece together the events of the past weekend.

Forty-eight hours later, she wakes up in a hospital bed injured but alive, with the knowledge that someone is dead. When a friend she hasn't seen or spoken to in years unexpectedly invites Nora (Lee) to a weekend away in an eerie glass house deep in the English countryside, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip. Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her nest of an apartment unless it is absolutely necessary. What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware's suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller.