With a Vengeance

Riley Sager returns with his highly anticipated new murder mystery, With a Vengeance, simmering with secrecy, betrayal and retribution.

Anna Matheson wants revenge on the people who killed her family. Her father, head of the Union Atlantic Railroad, was framed for murder. Her brother was tragically killed and her mother committed suicide shortly afterwards. Six people are to blame for ruining her life – Judd Dodge, who designed her father’s trains; Herb Pulaski, who built the engines from Judd’s designs; Sal Lawrence, Anna’s father’s secretary; Edith Gerhardt, Anna’s German nurse; Kenneth Wentworth, the new owner of the Union Atlantic following Anna’s father’s death; and Lt. Col. Jack Lapsford, a military man with the bloodiest hands of them all.

The plan? Invite all six of the people who were once so closely entwined with and trusted by Anna’s family on her father’s train, the Philadelphia Phoenix, running express from Philadelphia to Chicago, and get their confessions, ready for the waiting FBI agents to arrest them at the end of the journey. But someone wants the truth to stay dead and body after body is found murdered on the train. Soon Anna’s quest for justice becomes a story of survival.

Different from Sager’s past eerie and twisting thrillers, With a Vengeance is a classic whodunit that calls upon the spirit of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express like a Ouija board. The sense of claustrophobia Sager builds is overwhelming, as the characters are trapped together on the train for 13 hours and drop like flies. Set in 1950s America, With a Vengeance is a stylish and riveting historical mystery that will appeal to readers who prefer an enticing story that still leaves them able to sleep comfortably at night.