I've heard such raves about Sager that I bought his Home Before Dark even though I don't normally have much of an interest in thrillers/suspense, and I hated it. The prose was dull and boring but the story was just compelling enough that I put up with it hoping for a good resolution to the mystery. Instead what I got was silly, contrived, and thoroughly implausible. But not, at least, too overtly racist and misogynistic!