Final Girls
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
An intense and imaginative horror story, Final Girls follows the lone survivor of a massacre, who must reclaim her locked-away memories when faced with another threat ten years later. Shot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting, this...
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An intense and imaginative horror story, Final Girls follows the lone survivor of a massacre, who must reclaim her locked-away memories when faced with another threat ten years later. Shot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting, this novel is an urgently told, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer.
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THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER If you liked Gone Girl, you ll like this. Stephen King
Ten years ago, six friends went on vacation. One made it out alive .
In that instant, college student Quincy Carpenter became a member of a very exclusive club a group of survivors the press dubbed The Final Girls : Lisa, who lost nine sorority sisters to a college dropout's knife; Sam, who endured the Sack Man during her shift at the Nightlight Inn; and now Quincy, who ran bleeding through the woods to escape the massacre at Pine Cottage. Despite the media's attempts, the three girls have never met.
Now, Quincy is doing well maybe even great, thanks to her Xanax prescription. She has a caring almost-fiancé; a popular baking blog; a beautiful apartment; and a therapeutic presence in Coop, the police officer who saved her life. Her mind won t let her recall the events of that night; the past is in the past until the first Final Girl is found dead in her bathtub and the second Final Girl appears on Quincy's doorstep.
Blowing through Quincy's life like a hurricane, Sam seems intent on making her relive the trauma of her ordeal. When disturbing details about Lisa's death emerge, Quincy desperately tries to unravel Sam's truths from her lies while evading both the police and bloodthirsty reporters. Quincy knows that in order to survive she has to remember what really happened at Pine Cottage.
Because the only thing worse than being a Final Girl is being a dead one.
WINNER OF THE 2018 INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD FOR BEST HARDCOVER NOVEL
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1.My hands are covered in frosting when Jeff calls. Despite my best efforts, the French buttercream has oozed onto my knuckles and into the hammocks between my fingers, sticking there like paste. Only one pinkie finger remains unscathed, and I use it to tap the speakerphone button.
"Carpenter and Richards, private investigators," I say, imitating the breathy voice of a film noir secretary. "How may I direct your call?"
Jeff plays along, his tough-guy tone pitched somewhere between Robert Mitchum and Dana Andrews. "Put Miss Carpenter on the horn. I need to talk to her pronto."
"Miss Carpenter is busy with an important case. May I take a message?"
"Yeah," Jeff says. "Tell her my flight from Chi-Town has been delayed."
My faade drops. "Oh, Jeff. Really?"
"Sorry, hon. The perils of flying out of the Windy City."
"How long is the delay?"
"Anywhere from two hours to maybe-I'll-be-home-by-next-week," Jeff says. "I'm at least hoping it's long enough for me to miss the start of Baking Season."
"No such luck, pal."
"How's it going, by the way?"
I look down at my hands. "Messy."
Baking Season is Jeff's name for the exhausting stretch between early October and late December, when all those dessert-heavy holidays arrive without reprieve. He likes to say it ominously, raising his hands and wiggling his fingers like spider legs.
Ironically, it's a spider that's caused my hands to be coated in buttercream. Made of double-dark chocolate frosting, its stomach teeters on the edge of a cupcake while black legs stretch across the top and down the sides. When I'm finished, the cupcakes will be posed, photographed, and displayed on my website's roster of Halloween baking ideas. This year's theme is "Revenge of the Yummy."
"How's the airport?" I ask.
"Crowded. But I think I'll survive by hitting the terminal bar."
"Call me if the delay gets any worse," I say. "I'll be here, covered in icing."
"Bake like the wind,"
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Jeff replies.
Call over, it's back to the buttercream spider and the chocolate-cherry cupcake it partly covers. If I've done it right, the red center should ooze out at first bite. That test will come later. Right now, my chief concern is the outside.
Decorating cupcakes is harder than it seems. Especially when the results will be posted online for thousands to see. Smudges and smears aren't allowed. In a high-def world, flaws loom large.
Details matter.
That's one of the Ten Commandments on my website, squeezed between Measuring Cups Are Your Friends and Don't Be Afraid to Fail.
I finish the first cupcake and am working on the second when my phone rings again. This time there's not even a clean pinkie finger at my disposal, and I'm forced to ignore it. The phone continues to buzz while shimmying across the countertop. It then goes silent, pausing a moment before emitting a telltale beep.
A text.
Curious, I drop the icing bag, wipe my hands, and check the phone. It's from Coop.
We need to talk. Face 2 face.
My fingers pause above the screen. Although it takes Coop three hours to drive into Manhattan, it's a trip he's willingly made many times in the past. When it's important.
I text back. When?
His reply arrives in seconds. Now. Usual place.
A spot of worry presses the base of my spine. Coop is already here. Which means only one thing-something is wrong.
Before leaving, I rush through my usual preparations for a meeting with Coop. Teeth brushed. Lips glossed. Tiny Xanax popped. I wash the little blue pill down with some grape soda drunk straight from the bottle.
In the elevator, it occurs to
Call over, it's back to the buttercream spider and the chocolate-cherry cupcake it partly covers. If I've done it right, the red center should ooze out at first bite. That test will come later. Right now, my chief concern is the outside.
Decorating cupcakes is harder than it seems. Especially when the results will be posted online for thousands to see. Smudges and smears aren't allowed. In a high-def world, flaws loom large.
Details matter.
That's one of the Ten Commandments on my website, squeezed between Measuring Cups Are Your Friends and Don't Be Afraid to Fail.
I finish the first cupcake and am working on the second when my phone rings again. This time there's not even a clean pinkie finger at my disposal, and I'm forced to ignore it. The phone continues to buzz while shimmying across the countertop. It then goes silent, pausing a moment before emitting a telltale beep.
A text.
Curious, I drop the icing bag, wipe my hands, and check the phone. It's from Coop.
We need to talk. Face 2 face.
My fingers pause above the screen. Although it takes Coop three hours to drive into Manhattan, it's a trip he's willingly made many times in the past. When it's important.
I text back. When?
His reply arrives in seconds. Now. Usual place.
A spot of worry presses the base of my spine. Coop is already here. Which means only one thing-something is wrong.
Before leaving, I rush through my usual preparations for a meeting with Coop. Teeth brushed. Lips glossed. Tiny Xanax popped. I wash the little blue pill down with some grape soda drunk straight from the bottle.
In the elevator, it occurs to
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Autoren-Porträt von Riley Sager
Riley Sager is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, most recently Home Before Dark and Survive the Night. A native of Pennsylvania, he now lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Riley Sager
- 2018, 368 Seiten, Masse: 14,2 x 21 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Dutton
- ISBN-10: 1101985380
- ISBN-13: 9781101985380
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.01.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Praise for Final GirlsDeliciously scary. New York Times Book Review
A terrific read! Karin Slaughter, New York Times and international bestselling author
Sager does an excellent job throughout of keeping the audience guessing until the final twist. A fresh voice in psychological suspense. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Sager cleverly plays on horror movie themes from Scream to Single White Female, creating an homage without camp. Despite comparisons to Gone Girl, this debut s strong character development and themes of rebirth and redemption align more closely with Flynn s Dark Places. Booklist (starred review), The Year's Best Crime Novels
The tale builds to a fantastic conclusion that will have readers thinking of Gillian Flynn s Gone Girl and Paula Hawkins s The Girl on the Train....This brilliant horror/psychological thriller will fly off the shelves. Library Journal (starred review)
You know the cold dread that washes over you while you re watching a slasher flick? That s how you ll feel reading this blood-spattered mystery. Entertainment Weekly
Part thriller, part horror story, Final Girls borrows riffs from Friday the 13th, Halloween, and Single White Female, but remains its own sophisticated creature....Taut and bloody, this chilling mystery invites Gillian Flynn comparisons. Readers should prepare to sleep with the lights on. ShelfAwareness
Stephen King dubbed this page-turner about three women with a seriously grim bond the first great thriller of 2017. So yeah, it s good. Cosmopolitan
A twisty thriller that keeps you guessing whodunit. Family Circle
In horror movies, the 'final girl' is the one young woman who makes it out of a slasher film alive. But in Sager's story, Quincy, who survived a mass murder, refuses to play into the 'final girl' trope. Instead, she creates a fulfilling life in NYC. Then, a woman like her dies of an apparent suicide, and Quincy's well-crafted facade gradually
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begins to unravel. This one will keep you guessing until the very last page. PureWow
Final Girls is a twisty horror novel that will keep you perched, terrified, at the edge of your seat until the very last page. Bustle
Sager quickly ratchets up the mystery and the psychological suspense in classic slasher-movie fashion...[and] takes time to delve into the head of the main character, creating an emotionally charged experience readers won t soon forget. BookPage
The tone of this book is absolutely spot on more Dark Places than Gone Girl but it s creepy as hell and it evokes the best qualities of 80s slasher movies. Book Riot
Far and away the best thriller that came out this year. PopSugar
A cleverly devised, expertly written psychological thriller. Fresh Fiction
Final Girls is the reason they came up with the term page-turner. PopHorror
Riley Sager s loving ode to the slasher film, Final Girls, was 2017 s perfect summer read. CrimeReads
Readers won t want to put this intense thriller down on the beach blanket though that blanket may come in handy for hiding under during some of the book s scarier moments. The Deseret News
The Final Girls need you. You must sit down with this book, you must read. You must start flipping pages, faster, faster, faster. The Final Girls are tough, everything survivors should be. But the new threat is clever, ominous, even closer than you suspect. You are about to gasp. You might drop the book. You may have to look over your shoulder. But you must keep reading. This is the best book of 2017, the Final Girls need you. Lisa Gardner, New York Times bestselling author of Find Her
Final Girls is a compulsive read, with characters who are at once unreliable and sympathetic. Just when you think you've figured out the plot, the story pivots in a startling new direction....A taut and original mystery that will keep you up late trying to figure out a final twist that you won't see coming. Carla Norton, bestselling author of The Edge of Normal and What Doesn't Kill Her
Part psychological thriller, part homage to slasher flicks and film noir, Final Girls has a little bit of everything: a suspicious death, a damaged heroine, an unwelcome guest who trades in secrets, and not a single character you can trust. Plenty of nail-biting fun! Hester Young, author of The Gates of Evangeline
There are uncommon books and films that crack the safe place, that have us forgetting it s only a story. Nobody knows exactly how this is done, but when it s done, we know it. Final Girls is operating on that plane; you will check your own arm for a wound a character suffers, you will look across the room when a character hears someone coming, and you will wonder if you yourself have the mettle to endure being a Final Girl. Josh Malerman, author of Bird Box
Smart and provocative, with plenty of twists and turns, Final Girls will have the reader racing breathlessly toward its shocking conclusion. Sophie Littlefield, award-winning author of The Guilty One and The Missing Place
Phenomenally drawn characters and an intriguing premise make this one of my favorite books I've read this year. An outstanding novel. Hollie Overton, bestselling author of Baby Doll
Captivating and compelling, with a refreshingly brilliant premise, Riley Sager is one to watch. Lisa Hall, bestselling author of Between You and Me and Tell Me No Lies
An intriguing, original idea. We ve all shuddered at bloodbath stories but how does the survivor cope? It made me think outside the psychological box. Fresh voice, great characterization, and unexpected surprises. This stayed in my mind because it was different. Jane Corry, Sunday Times bestselling author of My Husband's Wife
Final Girls is a twisty horror novel that will keep you perched, terrified, at the edge of your seat until the very last page. Bustle
Sager quickly ratchets up the mystery and the psychological suspense in classic slasher-movie fashion...[and] takes time to delve into the head of the main character, creating an emotionally charged experience readers won t soon forget. BookPage
The tone of this book is absolutely spot on more Dark Places than Gone Girl but it s creepy as hell and it evokes the best qualities of 80s slasher movies. Book Riot
Far and away the best thriller that came out this year. PopSugar
A cleverly devised, expertly written psychological thriller. Fresh Fiction
Final Girls is the reason they came up with the term page-turner. PopHorror
Riley Sager s loving ode to the slasher film, Final Girls, was 2017 s perfect summer read. CrimeReads
Readers won t want to put this intense thriller down on the beach blanket though that blanket may come in handy for hiding under during some of the book s scarier moments. The Deseret News
The Final Girls need you. You must sit down with this book, you must read. You must start flipping pages, faster, faster, faster. The Final Girls are tough, everything survivors should be. But the new threat is clever, ominous, even closer than you suspect. You are about to gasp. You might drop the book. You may have to look over your shoulder. But you must keep reading. This is the best book of 2017, the Final Girls need you. Lisa Gardner, New York Times bestselling author of Find Her
Final Girls is a compulsive read, with characters who are at once unreliable and sympathetic. Just when you think you've figured out the plot, the story pivots in a startling new direction....A taut and original mystery that will keep you up late trying to figure out a final twist that you won't see coming. Carla Norton, bestselling author of The Edge of Normal and What Doesn't Kill Her
Part psychological thriller, part homage to slasher flicks and film noir, Final Girls has a little bit of everything: a suspicious death, a damaged heroine, an unwelcome guest who trades in secrets, and not a single character you can trust. Plenty of nail-biting fun! Hester Young, author of The Gates of Evangeline
There are uncommon books and films that crack the safe place, that have us forgetting it s only a story. Nobody knows exactly how this is done, but when it s done, we know it. Final Girls is operating on that plane; you will check your own arm for a wound a character suffers, you will look across the room when a character hears someone coming, and you will wonder if you yourself have the mettle to endure being a Final Girl. Josh Malerman, author of Bird Box
Smart and provocative, with plenty of twists and turns, Final Girls will have the reader racing breathlessly toward its shocking conclusion. Sophie Littlefield, award-winning author of The Guilty One and The Missing Place
Phenomenally drawn characters and an intriguing premise make this one of my favorite books I've read this year. An outstanding novel. Hollie Overton, bestselling author of Baby Doll
Captivating and compelling, with a refreshingly brilliant premise, Riley Sager is one to watch. Lisa Hall, bestselling author of Between You and Me and Tell Me No Lies
An intriguing, original idea. We ve all shuddered at bloodbath stories but how does the survivor cope? It made me think outside the psychological box. Fresh voice, great characterization, and unexpected surprises. This stayed in my mind because it was different. Jane Corry, Sunday Times bestselling author of My Husband's Wife
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