The second excerpt from her father’s book details the buying on Baneberry Hall and learn on the murder-suicide of the Carver family, the previous owners before the Holt’s and that the house probably has a more unpleasant history that people aren’t willing to talk about. Much like Lock Every Door this novel is told over a short period of time, less than a month and much like Lock Every Door, we jump between past and present in the form of excerpts from her father’s book coupled with Maggie’s perspective in the present. Maggie’s father has recently died and left her the royalties from the book and infamy, but he failed to mention that he still owned Baneberry Hall and it is now hers. One particular incident from “the Book” we get to read is about Maggie asking her father to check for ghosts in her room and telling him that a ghost named Mister Shadow tells her that they are going to die there.
We are introduced to Maggie Holt, who believes that her father’s book was completely made up as she can’t remember the events, he talks about in his book regarding their time at Baneberry Hall. Later Maggie’s father published a book called House of Horror that becomes a cult classic, but it is surrounded by disbelief and then Maggie inherits Baneberry Hall after her father’s death and returns to the place her father feared.
All I knew about this book is that Maggie and her parents Ewan and Jess move into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods and fled after a few weeks. Review: I recently read Lock Every Door by Riley Sager and loved it, I listened to the audiobook as well as reading the physical copy and if Home Before Dark is anything like that then this is definitely going to be a 5 star read, although I was a little disappointed there is no audiobook for this on Audible yet.
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