From a New York Times story by Elisabeth Egan headlined “How Does a Prolific Author Deal With Cold Feet?”

In the past six years, Riley Sager has published seven novels — all of them best sellers except his first, “Final Girls,” which won a 2018 International Thriller Writers Award. The Pennsylvania native reliably produces one book a year on a strict schedule that sounded remarkably uncomplicated (if dizzying) when he described it,