Todd Ritter Books

PRE-ORDER NOW! THE BRAND NEW HEART-POUNDING GOTHIC THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR. At seventeen, Lenora Hope was at the center of a shocking family massacre in 1929 that left the Maine coast reeling. While many believe Lenora was responsible, the police never proved it, and she has remained silent about that fateful night, never leaving the cliffside mansion where it all occurred. Now, in 1983, home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at the decaying Hope's End to care for the elderly Lenora, who is confined to a wheelchair and rendered mute by strokes. Lenora communicates by tapping out messages on an old typewriter. One night, she offers Kit an intriguing proposition: "I want to tell you everything." As Kit assists Lenora in recounting the events surrounding the massacre, it becomes clear that the story is more complex than it appears. However, when unsettling details about the previous nurse's abrupt departure emerge, Kit begins to question Lenora's reliability. The seemingly harmless woman in her care may hold dark secrets and could be far more dangerous than Kit initially believed.

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Survive the Night and Final Girls comes a tense and twisty thriller about a summer camp that’s impossible to forget—no matter how hard you try. Two Truths and a Lie. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and Emma played it all the time in their cabin at Camp Nightingale. But the games ended the night Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out into the darkness. The last she—or anyone—saw of the teenagers was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips.... Fifteen years later, Emma is a rising star in the New York art scene, turning her past into paintings—massive canvases filled with dark leaves and gnarled branches over ghostly shapes in white dresses. When the paintings catch the attention of the wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale, she implores Emma to come back to the newly reopened camp as a painting instructor. Despite her guilt and anxiety—or maybe because of them—Emma agrees to revisit her past. Nightingale looks the same as it did all those years ago, haunted by a midnight-dark lake and familiar faces. Emma is even assigned to the same cabin she slept in as a teenager, although the security camera pointed at her door is a disturbing new addition. As cryptic clues about the camp's origins begin to surface, Emma attempts to find out what really happened to her friends. But her closure could come at a deadly price.

What was it like? Living in that house. Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into a rambling Victorian estate called Baneberry Hall. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a memoir called House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon. Now, Maggie has inherited Baneberry Hall after her father's death. She was too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father's book. But she doesn't believe a word of it. Ghosts, after all, don't exist. But when she returns to Baneberry Hall to prepare it for sale, her homecoming is anything but warm. People from the pages of her father's book lurk in the shadows, and locals aren't thrilled that their small town has been made infamous. Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself - a place that hints of dark deeds and unexplained happenings. As the days pass, Maggie begins to believe that what her father wrote was more fact than fiction. That, either way, someone - or something - doesn't want her here. And that she might be in danger all over again...

They've offered you a luxury apartment, rent free. The catch: you may not live long enough to enjoy it... No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents. These are the only rules for Jules Larson's new job as apartment sitter for an elusive resident of the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile private buildings and home to the rich and famous. Recently heartbroken and practically homeless, Jules readily accepts the terms, ready to leave her past life behind. Out of place among the extremely wealthy, Jules finds herself pulled toward other apartment sitter Ingrid. But Ingrid confides that the Bartholomew is not what it seems and the dark history hidden beneath its gleaming facade is starting to frighten her. Jules brushes it off as a harmless ghost story - but the next day, her new friend has vanished. And then Jules discovers that Ingrid is not the first temporary resident to go missing... Welcome to the Bartholomew...You may never leave

Each girl survived an unthinkable horror. Now someone wants them dead... They were the victims of separate massacres. Grouped together by the press, and dubbed the Final Girls, they are treated like something fresh out of a slasher movie. When something terrible happens to Lisa, put-together Quincy and volatile Sam finally meet.

A gripping thriller that promises to keep readers on the edge of their seats, this novel showcases the author's signature style and masterful storytelling. Expect intense suspense, unexpected twists, and complex characters that draw you into a high-stakes plot. With a fast-paced narrative and a chilling atmosphere, it explores themes of danger and survival, making it a must-read for fans of the genre.

"The new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager in which a recently fired Broadway star flees to a remote Vermont lake house, only to find out that the area has a history of missing women"-- Provided by publisher

10 hours It’s November 1991. George H. W. Bush is in the White House, Nirvana's in the tape deck, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer. Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For Charlie, it’s guilt and grief over the murder of her best friend, who became the third victim of the man known as the Campus Killer. For Josh, it’s to help care for his sick father. Or so he says. Like the Hitchcock heroine she’s named after, Charlie has her doubts. There’s something suspicious about Josh, from the holes in his story about his father to how he doesn’t seem to want Charlie to see inside the car’s trunk. As they travel an empty highway in the dead of night, an increasingly worried Charlie begins to think she’s sharing a car with the Campus Killer. Is Josh truly dangerous? Or is Charlie’s suspicion merely a figment of her movie-fueled imagination? What follows is a game of cat-and-mouse played out on night-shrouded roads and in neon-lit parking lots, during an age when the only call for help can be made on a pay phone and in a place where there's nowhere to run. In order to win, Charlie must do one thing - survive the night.

Final Girls Sie haben die Hölle überlebt. Aber das war erst der Anfang ...Als Einzige hat die Studentin Quincy ein Massaker auf einer Party überlebt. Sie hat jede Erinnerung an damals aus ihrem Gedächtnis gelöscht und sich mühsam ein normales Leben aufgebaut. Zwei andere Frauen, Lisa und Samantha, haben ähnlich Grauenvolles durchgemacht - ein Fest für die Medien, in denen die drei als »Final Girls« bekannt werden. Doch der Horror ist noch lange nicht zu Ende: Lisa wird tot aufgefunden. Ermordet? Der Schlüssel zu allem scheint in dem Massaker in Pine Cottage zu liegen, das nur Quincy überlebte. Angestachelt von Samantha, versucht sie verzweifelt sich zu erinnern, was dort geschah ... Verschließ jede TürEin Haus zum Träumen. Und zum Sterben.Jules hat einen Wahnsinns-Job an Land gezogen: Sie soll im Bartholomew, einem prachtvollen alten Hochhaus am Central Park, auf eine Luxuswohnung aufpassen. Und dafür 1000 Dollar die Woche kassieren! Einige seltsame Bedingungen gibt es allerdings: Sie muss jede Nacht im Apartment schlafen und darf niemanden in die Wohnung lassen. Kaum ist Jules eingezogen, häufen sich unheimliche Vorkommnisse. Von Ingrid, ebenfalls »Apartmentsitterin«, erfährt sie, dass das Bartholomew ein dunkles Geheimnis hat. Als Ingrid verschwindet, versucht Jules, das Geheimnis zu lüften - und gerät dabei selbst in größte Gefahr.

Im kalten Licht des Mondes. 20. Juli 1969: Während Neil Armstrong als erster Mensch einen Fuß auf den Mond setzt, verschwindet in Perry Hollow der zehnjährige Charlie Olmstead spurlos. Nach fruchtlosen Ermittlungen wird die Akte geschlossen. 40 Jahre später leitet der ehemalige Polizist Nick Donnolly eine Stiftung zur Wiederaufnahme alter Fälle. Mit der örtlichen Polizeichefin, Kat Campbell, rollt er auch Charlies Fall neu auf. Sie machen eine furchtbare Entdeckung: Bei jeder Mondlandung der NASA verschwand in Pennsylvania ein kleiner Junge. Und keine der Leichen wurde je gefunden. «‹Totennacht› besitzt einen unwiderstehlichen Sog. Am Ende bleibt man atemlos zurück!» Kirkus Reviews

Ein gefesselter Mann, die Augen verbunden. Er lauscht in die Dunkelheit. Er hört Schritte. Er will schreien und kann es nicht.Seit Menschengedenken hat sich in Perry Hollow kein Gewaltverbrechen ereignet. Doch an diesem Morgen wird ein Bürger des kleinen Ortes gefunden: in einem Sarg, die Lippen zugenäht, der Körper ausgeblutet. Während sich Kat Campbell, Sheriff der kleinen Stadt, an die Ermittlungen macht, geht bei der Perry Hollow Gazette der Text für eine weitere Traueranzeige ein. Todeszeit: in einer halben Stunde.

In ihrem Rückzugsort am See wird Casey Fletcher von der vermeintlich perfekten Ehe des Nachbarpaars fasziniert. Als die Frau plötzlich verschwindet, wird Casey von Alarm und Neugier gepackt. Die Geschichte entfaltet sich in einem Spannungsfeld zwischen Schein und Wirklichkeit, während Casey versucht, das Rätsel um das Verschwinden zu lösen und dabei in gefährliche Abgründe blickt.

Záhada na druhou: Ve vyhořelé stáji se najde mrtvé tělo. V dalším příběhu Katie Burkholderové se na povrch vynořuje skupečná povaha oběti. Poslední lež: Emma se v dětsrví zúčastnila táboru, na kterém zmizely její kamarádky. V současnosti se vrací na stejné místo - najde rozluštění všech záhad? Vypůjčené kosti: Mercy ztratila v bojích snoubence a Elvis, služební pes, svého pána. Ve vermontských lesích najdou opuštěné nemluvně - a to je teprve začátek... Když se dá žena na vojnu: Harper přišla ve váce v cizině o manžela a sama pečuje o malého syna. Přítel jejího manžela byl zraněn. Budou mít spolu sílu zvítězit nad minulostí?

Riley Sager, Zamkni poslední dveře - Jules Larsenová najde práci snů, ale v domě není všechno, jak se zdá, a za dveřmi se nacházejí hrůzy...Paula Munier, Hon naslepo - Autistický chlapec se stane svědkem vraždy. Veteránka Mercy se svým psem začíná pátrat...Andrew Gross, Pátá kolona - V únoru 1939 není ani v New Yorku všechno v pořádku. Co skrývá švýcarská dvojice, na první pohled tak milá?Katherine Center, Rozhodni se sama - Na místo ředitele v Samanthině škole nastupuje nový ředitel. Samantha ho zná, ale nepoznává! Bezstarostný muž se proměnil v podivného neurotika...

Tragická minulosť. Vlak bez jedinej zastávky. Trinásť hodín, počas ktorých vyjde pravda na povrch. V roku 1954 nastúpi Anna Mathesonová do luxusného nočného vlaku smerujúceho do Chicaga. So sebou si nesie zoznam mien a túžbu po pomste. Pred dvanástimi rokmi, uprostred druhej svetovej vojny, šesť ľudí roztrhalo jej rodinný život na kusy. Teraz ich pod falošnou identitou všetkých zhromaždí na jednom mieste – vo vlaku, z ktorého niet úniku. Jej plán je jednoduchý a nemilosrdný. Prinútiť všetkých čeliť minulosti, odhaliť tajomstvá pochované časom a nechať ich zaplatiť za ich činy. Lenže ešte pred svitaním je jeden z cestujúcich zavraždený. A Anna pochopí, že v tomto vlaku nie je jediná, ktorá má tajomstvá... ani jediná, ktorá túži po pomste. Ako sa vlak rúti do ľadovej noci, Anna sa musí presekávať vrstvami klamstiev, zrátať cenu odplaty a zmazať hranicu medzi obeťami a vinníkmi. Napokon musí urobiť nemožné – ochrániť ľudí, ktorých nenávidí. Pretože niekto na palube má jediný cieľ – na konečnú stanicu sa nesmie dostať nikto. Ani ona.