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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the latest thriller from the bestselling author of Final Girls, a young woman returns to her childhood summer camp to uncover the truth about a tragedy that happened there fifteen years ago. Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. But the games ended the night Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out of the cabin into the darkness. The last she--or anyone--saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips. Now a rising star in the New York art scene, Emma turns her past into paintings--massive canvases filled with dark leaves and gnarled branches that cover ghostly shapes in white dresses. When the paintings catch the attention of Francesca Harris-White, the wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale, she implores Emma to return to the newly reopened camp as a painting instructor. Seeing an opportunity to find out what really happened to her friends all those years ago, Emma agrees. Familiar faces, unchanged cabins, and the same dark lake haunt Nightingale, even though the camp is opening its doors for the first time since the disappearances. Emma is even assigned to the same cabin she slept in as a teenager, but soon discovers a security camera--the only one on the property--pointed directly at its door. Then cryptic clues that Vivian left behind about the camp's twisted origins begin surfacing. As she digs deeper, Emma finds herself sorting through lies from the past while facing mysterious threats in the present. And the closer she gets to the truth about Camp Nightingale and what really happened to those girls, the more she realizes that closure could come at a deadly price.
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Sager, Riley
- ISBN: 9781524743079
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 9.00 x 1.30
- Number Of Pages: 384
- Publication Year: 2018
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Summer Camp + Tragic Secret = Slasher Movie Fan's Dream Book
Meg M. - 2 years 3 months agoAre you a fan of classic slasher flicks? Then this book is for you. Taking place in the familiar setting of a newly reopened summer camp hiding a tragic secret, this thriller will take you on a wild journey to uncover the truth of what really happened during the last year at summer camp. Riley Sager takes a familiar plot and turns it upside down in this edge of your seat read!
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Sleep Away Summer Camp Mystery
Nick G. - 6 years 8 months agoRiley Sager's "The Last Time I Lied" was a great addition to my personal library; it was the kind of mystery that left me satisfied with the nostalgia of camp but left me with plenty of suspense that made me stay up until 4 am to see what happened next. To summarize the book, Emma Davis is a quickly rising artist in New York with her first gallery opening to the public. Her subject; faceless, haunting young girls lost in the forest. Many years ago, when Emma was 13, she went to a sleep away camp for young girls. It was there she met Vivian, Natalie, and Allison, her new bunkmates. They become friends, but then one night, Emma wakes up to find them all leaving the cabin, and Vivian closes the door with a finger over her lips, very "Pretty Little Liars"-esque. Emma had no idea that she'd never see or hear from them again. No one knew where they went, and after a long, uneventful search, they were lost forever with the camp closed down with no answers. Back to present day, at Emma's gallery opening, she is approached by an old familiar face, Mrs. Francesca Harris, the owner of the camp, to tell her that she's reopening the camp and wants Emma to be the new Painting instructor. Emma reluctantly agrees with the hope to return to find out what really happened all those years ago. As the mystery delves deeper into the unknown, the story switches off from past to present, sometimes to clarify what recent discovery happened and helping it all tie together. I dont want to give too much else away; all I know is if you like mystery, this is a top choice to dive into! I actually loved how it took place at a summer camp; some of the buildings mentioned and the overall layout of the camp sent me into a whirlwind of nostalgia for when I went to a camp with a similar feel to it; the wooden cabins with the bunk beds, the massive campfires by the lake, the mosquitoes, the worn down, weathered cabin-style buildings, the cafeteria, the hot older camp counselor all the girls (and me) had a crush on, and the latrines to go take a quick shower before the water always went cold. It made me think of it all for the first time in forever and how much I enjoyed it. I love nostalgia.... The book is also very well written and Riley Sager is excellent at creating rising tension and suspense, even if it may be to a minor event happening or conversation had. He just makes your thoughts jump all over the place and truly get anxious about what happens next. And one last thing, Im glad there was a small speck of romance involved because I confess, Im a sucker for romance and a happy ending pertaining to it.
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