The Locked Door – Book Review

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.

I have official become a Freida McFadden’s No. 1 fan. And any book by Freida McFadden is an auto buy for me.

Nora Davis is a successful surgeon. But she has a past. She was back then known as Nora Nierling. When she was eleven-years-old, her father had killing more than thirty women in the basement of their home. His signature is by chopping off the victims’ hands, thus earning him the nickname, Handyman. Her father is now serving life sentences while Nora changed her last name to begin her new life. But someone knows about her past and soon a woman, who was a patient of Nora Davis was found murdered in the similar fashion as her father did nearly twenty six years ago. But her father is in prison and Nora believes that someone knows about her past.

I liked the pacing of the story–the story was fast paced and unputdownable. However, I found the main character, Nora really annoying, conceited and selfish. Not to mention the fact that back when she was a kid, she had a tendency to hurt animals that her own mother was worried about her. I wondered how on earth did Nora end up being an evil kid to a person who is doing good deeds. Most of Freida’s books have annoying and unreliable female characters, which can be either good or bad for the story. In this case, it was somewhat OK.

The ending was completely twisted and unexpected. I did not really expected that ending. Of course, I like all those small twists and turns along the story until that unexpected twist came at the end. And the small cliffhanger in the end–that was really great.

This is really an addictive read, unputdownable and like all her books, you will wait up all night reading this one–worth 4 stars!