I really liked the idea of isolation, and this was before Covid-19, so this idea of just basically having two characters in a car and one of them suspects the other of doing horrible things, and the other one suspects that she suspects him of doing horrible things.
So, I just had this idea of writing something almost in real-time, that the events of the book take place almost for as long as it takes you to read the book. You sit and then you start again, you’re like, ‘I don’t know anything.'” Ritter became the more gender-neutral Sager at his agent’s behest with the release of his first book under that name, Final Girls, in an effort to rebrand.ĭespite all that, Sager has managed to write five books under his current nom de plume, all of them bestsellers that delve into diverse corners of mystery and horror - from 2017’s Final Girls, which brought the horror movie trope of a last girl standing into the real world to 2019’s Lock Every Door, a modern take on Satanic cult books and movies like Rosemary’s Baby to 2020’s Home Before Dark, a thorny haunted house tale. “Then I eventually figure it out again, but it’s like this constant recurring amnesia. “There’s always this moment where I sit there and look at my blank page and think, ‘I don’t know how to do this,'” says Sager, who spent the first half of his career writing under his given name, Todd Ritter.
Riley Sager has been writing thrillers for over a decade now, but each time he starts penning another, he’s gripped by the same terrible thought.
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