True confession: I requested this book because I misread the author’s name and thought it was a different author whose work I had enjoyed. So, I was totally clueless about this author going in, and if I had read the blurb carefully it is unlikely I would have requested it. TBH, creepy old houses, particularly the haunted variety, are just not my thing. But, here we are…

Despite my lack of affinity for haunted houses, the book was a fast read and I liked it. It alternated between a story about a creepy old house (haunted?) told by a woman in the present day and the nonfiction book the woman’s father had written about the same house following the family’s stay there years ago. I admit I really wanted to know the truth (even after the woman came to believe the truth was that the house was truly haunted. 

Didn’t guess the ending — not unusual for me! Not really my thing but fun. Home Before Dark by Riley Sager gets 3.5 stars rounded up to 4.