What a scary little thriller to read in October! This book was fast-paced and kept me hooked. It also got me a little scared when I was reading it at night! Super twisty. Great read!

What I Liked: It was an easy read and I mean that in a good way. I was hooked from the first few pages and the short chapters make it easy to keep going. I feel like I can read just one more chapter and by the time I stop in 100 pages in. I love that I’m usually wrong in how the story ends end there is always more than one twist.


What I didn't Like: Nothing, I really enjoyed the book.

Yes yes yes!! My goodness does Freida write anything boring ever? I loved it so much! Burning and freaky

The story of Dr. Nora Davis kept me wanting more! I read the book in 24 hours. The pace is fast and intriguing and will keep you turning the pages to figure out whodunnit?!

very readable, couldn't put it down! kinda silly/stupid female lead, but didn't guess all the twists and turns, overall v fun perfect thriller for no thinking high entertainment

The Locked Door was another great book by Freida McFadden. I enjoyed the twists. I did not expect the ending. I thought I had the ending figured out but then Freida threw in some plot twists and I was completelywrong. If you like a fast-paced physiological thriller then this is definitely for you.

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving my honest review voluntarily.

Thank you to NetGalley for sending me this arc to review.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, it may just be one of my new favorites from Frieda. I devoured it, at the 60% mark I just couldn’t stop without finishing. I HAD to know what happened, my heart was racing the entire time trying to figure out the twists which I was ultimately wrong about.

Wow, was this a quick read!

The book is well written and full of suspense. Every twist and turn kept me guessing and kept me engaged. The characters are well developed and McFadden does an excellent job of making them come alive in the story. The setting of the novel is also wonderful and full of vivid descriptions.

Overall, The Locked Door is a fantastic read and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a thrilling and suspenseful story.

Amazing read once again this book had me gripping from the start and I just wanted to keep reading, there were many twists and turns and the storyline kept me guessing until the end,!

THE LOCKED DOOR - FRIEDA MCFADDEN
4⭐
PLOT
Nora Davis's father is serving life imprisonment for killing women in his basement she was 11 and her life changed. Decades later Nora is a successful surgeon living a quiet solitary existence unaware to anyone about who her father is untill Nora discovers her female patients murdered in the same way as her father used to kill. Somebody knows who Nora is and wants her to take the fall for this unthinkable crime. But she is not like her father as long as they dnt look in her looked basement.

MY THOUGHTS -
Once again Frieda does it. This fast paced thriller will keep you guessing and she has done a great job in creating various red flags where you will doubt every character and the final reveal will make you surprised.
Definitely recommend this !

“The Locked Door” by Frieda McFadden is a fast paced psychological thriller than you can easily read in a day! I love picking up a Frieda McFadden book to get me out of a reading slump! She always delivers! This one was no different, it has a very interesting plot based on the daughter of a serial killer. The plot twist at the end completely got me! Thank you so much to publisher and NetGalley for this ARC!

I would like to thank NetGalley, Freida McFadden, and the publisher for the opportunity to read this re-release in exchange for my honest review.
This book packed a punch!
The main character, Nora, is a surgeon who has changed her name due to her father being a convicted and notorious serial killer from over 2 decades ago.
There is a copycat killer who is killing her patients and trying to frame her.
There are several people that Freida makes you think it could be.
Is Nora innocent? If she is, will she still be framed for 2 murders?

This was a fun ride and I could hardly put this book down! I love pretty much anything by Freida McFadden and was excited that this was an opportunity!

How do you cope with a serial killer for a dad and a mother who committed suicide because of it? 26 years after his arrest, a copycat comes to town. I loved this one. It's only my second Fredia book, but so far my favorite. I never saw that twist coming, as I was reading i really thought Nora did it and was hiding it. The line about the apple not falling far from the tree sold me on that theory. I'm definitely hooked on her books now.

I’m obsessed with anything & everything Freida writes. I loved The Housemaid & The Housemaid’s Secret. I started this book & finished it in the same day. I could not put it down. I thought I had the ending figured out but typical Freida-threw me for a loop. Absolutely a great thriller that will leave you biting your nails & wanting to know what happens next!

Nora Davis has secrets. Secrets about her past. Secrets that have haunted her and continue to do so. Has her past finally caught up to her?

Oh, Freida McFadden. I adore your books! The Locked Door was no exception! What a great psychological thriller! I couldn't put the book down! Lots of twists and turns that I wasn't expecting.
Thank you to NetGalley for a copy of The Locked Door!

Nora’s father is in prison. Also known as “ the Handyman”, he is a notorious serial killer.
Nora escapes being known as the daughter of a killer by becoming a surgeon.
All is going fine, until a copycat killer appears.

This was a ‘seat of your pants’ thriller. McFadden writes quick chapters that pull in the reader, with lots of twists!
Good book!
4 stars

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Holy wow! This book! I loved the concept the book and how it followed a serial killers daughter and how for the longest she thought she was just like her murderous father. I did not see that twist coming in the end and was shocked!! I am really becoming a fan of Freida McFadden and will be checking out more of her books as they are thrilling and relatively quick and engrossing reads.

MY THOUGHTS:

I did enjoy this book- Nora's dad as a serial killer was a majorly interesting plot point. I didn't like Nora- she was so mean to Brady! I mean we've all got our issues but at least be kind to people you're clearly using. I saw the ending coming, but still liked reading along. There were some parts in hindsight that very obviously tried to lead readers to think one way, but they seemed too in-your-face to be believable. Still a short chapter, quick read that held my attention.

This book was a quick and captivating read. I was hooked from the beginning, as the story follows the child (now an adult surgeon) of a serial killer. The story is told with chapters switching back and forth from the main characters childhood to now. I liked this because it gave the reader more of the story as you were reading and kept you guessing since you didn’t know the entire history. I didn’t really like the ending that much because of the way things tied up and ended neatly. I also wish there was a bit more character development but this may have been on purpose to keep you guessing since you didn’t know who to trust. Overall a good quick read!

To eleven year old Nora Davis, her dad, is just her dad. A normal dad with a normal, even respectable job, a normal wife, and a normal family. That is, when he’s not killing women in his basement. Nora loves her father, until she’s the one to find this out.

Twenty six years later, Nora Davis is now the surgeon Nora Nierling, distant from her serial-killer father in terms of emotions, location, and even her new name. She is skillful at separating her father’s past from her present, but what happens when someone starts killing her patients in exactly the same way her father killed his victims? Read “The Locked Door” to find out. ;)

I will start with a full disclaimer: this genre normally isn’t my genre, but Freida McFadden had me forgetting that. This book is extremely hard to put down and impossible to stop thinking about. I had multiple theories about who the killer was, and all of them were wrong! Every twist and turn in this book threw me for a loop, in the best of ways. It’s unpredictable without being unreasonable, twisty without being erratic. I love the effortless parallels the author drew between Nora and her father.

It’s worth noting that as a narrator, Nora is fairly unlikable, and definitely LIGHT SPOILERS AHEAD <spoiler> somewhat unreliable </spoiler>. (SPOILERS OVER) However, I like reading about unlikable people, as long as they’re interesting, and no one can accuse Nora of being boring.

Tl;de Four stars! Would absolutely recommend, and the twists will take you for a ride.