The Locked Door by Freida McFadden Book Review

Book Synopsis: “Some doors are locked for a reason…
While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement.
Until the day the police arrived at their front door.
Decades later, Nora’s father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way.
Then Nora discovers one of her young female patients has been murdered. In the same unique and horrific manner that her father used to kill his victims.
Somebody knows who Nora is. Somebody wants her to take the fall for this unthinkable crime. But she’s not a killer like her father. The police can’t pin anything on her.
As long as they don’t look in her basement.”

Genre: Thriller 😈

Pace: Fast

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Length: 313 pages, 8 hours 15 minutes

Format: Audiobook

What to Expect👇🏼

✌🏻 Dual timelines
🔪 Whodunit
📖 Surprise ending

💭 Review: “After having several “misses” from Freida lately, I was very much expecting this one to fall under that category too. I was pleasantly surprised!

I did not see the ending coming – I was convinced I knew who the “villain” was and I was ready to complain about the predictability of it in my review. Thankfully, I was proven wrong!

I even enjoyed her extra twist at the end! I didn’t see any plot holes in this story which I have in her other books so this was a solid read for me. I enjoy the past and present timeline, the constant suspense of “whodunit”, and the extra twists she gives at the end!

The only complaint I would have is I did feel like this one was longer than necessary! It was an 8 hour audiobook and I think a 6 hour one would have been perfect. Sometimes, I felt like there was unnecessary “filler” information lagging the story a bit. Oh, and this narrator wasn’t my favorite! I can’t say why but her voice irritated me and it sounded whiny a lot.

But, overall, I enjoyed this one and I’m glad I read it!”

Have you read this one? What did you think?

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