To the Ritter and Livio families, for their encouragement, support, and bringing quiet normalcy to a sometimes crazy world.

To Sarah Dutton, for being the best first reader a writer could ever have.

To Ben Turrano, for answering my many questions about driving a late-eighties Pontiac Grand Am.

To the filmmakers whose work inspires me and that I return to again and again—Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Steven Spielberg, David Fincher, Vincente Minnelli, Wes Craven, Brian De Palma, Walt Disney.

Finally, Survive the Night is a love letter to the movies, yes, but also to a specific time period. In November 1991, I was a senior in high school, which was a particularly fraught, magical, memorable time in my life. And if you’ll forgive one final bit of nostalgia, I’d like to thank the people who were so special to me then: Jenny Beaver, Jason Davis, Christine Fry, Marta McCormick, Marsha McKinney, John Paul, Sarah Paul, Brian Reedy, Jeff Richer, Seema Shah, and Kelly Jo Woodside. Thank you all for the many night drives.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Survive the Night is the fifth thriller from Riley Sager, the pseudonym of an author who lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Riley’s first novel, Final Girls, was a national and international bestseller that has been published in more than two dozen countries and won the ITW Thriller Award for Best Hardcover Novel. Sager’s novels The Last Time I Lied, Lock Every Door, and Home Before Dark were New York Times bestsellers.