I decided to read another Freida McFadden book. This time, The Locked Door.
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 that her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way.
Then Nora discovers two of her young female patients have 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.
I’d started to suspect that the two men in her life, her partner Phillip and her ex-boyfriend Brady, who conveniently came back into her life, had something to do with it. Every time I thought I had the mystery solved, another twist would send me in a completely different direction.
Freida McFadden definitely knows how to keep readers guessing. Just when I felt confident about who was behind everything, the story took another sharp turn. The ending caught me by surprise, and I love when a thriller can still do that after I’ve spent the entire book trying to solve it.
One thing I really enjoyed was how the chapters jumped between the present and Nora’s childhood. Those flashbacks slowly revealed pieces of her past and made me question whether she had inherited her father’s darkness or was simply haunted by it. It added so much suspense because you never quite knew who you could trust, not even Nora herself.
Overall, The Locked Door was another fast-paced, impossible-to-put-down read. If you’re looking for a psychological thriller with plenty of red herrings, short chapters that keep you saying “just one more,” and an ending that ties everything together in a way you don’t see coming, I’d definitely recommend adding this one to your reading list.