Serial Killer Father & Daughter? The Locked Door by Freida McFadden: Book Review
- clsimpson430
- Mar 27, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: Mar 30, 2023
My Review: 4 Stars
A LifeTime movie that actually lives up to its potential.
I was very iffy about this book considering the author has so many novels with similar titles and concepts. I didn't want it to be a story that follows a rigid formula. But I actually enioyed it! It wasn't mind-blowing, but it's a light, clean read that has several good twists and a nice full circle ending.
The reason I say The Locked Door is similar to a LifeTime movie is because there's really no guessing to it. There aren't any subtle hints dropped throughout the story. You simply wait for the ending to reveal itself. But unlike most LifeTime movies, the ending was very satisfactory and even has a tiny bit of open ended-ness.
Nora's story was very interesting and the flashbacks to her childhood add an extra level of intrigue. Throughout the book, you're constantly wondering if Nora is actually a trustworthy narrator or secretly a little BTK Jr. You get glimpses into her and her father's past and see the ways his personality melds with her own.
One of the things I liked most was the lack of gross sexual scenes, both in Nora's own life and in her father's. We all know that serial killers have gross sexual fantasies, but at least in this novel we get to forget about that. All we have to hear about are hands getting chopped off...and I'm good with that. RIP to the hands.
Overall: The Locked Door is great for a light, satisfactory crime read that you don't want to be utterly traumatized by.
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.
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