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ClareR (5950 KP) rated Lock Every Door in Books

Jul 27, 2019

Lock Every Door

Riley Sager | 2019 | Thriller

8.0

(9 Ratings)

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Lock the Door had me wanting to leave the building, never mind locking the door!

Lock the Door had me wanting to leave the building, never mind locking the door! This suspense-filled thriller by Riley Sager is about a young woman called Jules who finds a job as an apartment sitter in one of New York’s most exclusive buildings. She is jobless, penniless and homeless after an acrimonious split with her boyfriend, and this job comes along at just the right time. It’s a job for three months, and there are rules. They’re not terrible rules (other than no visitors, and absolutely no overnight guests), and the pay is too good to be true - and as it turns out, that really is the case.

This had my heart in my mouth for most of the book: there are definite echoes of Rosemary’s Baby (without the baby). An old building with strange, unfriendly inhabitants, a new tenant who feels like she might be going mad with all the strange goings-on. There the similarity ends though.

The writing terrified me in places: who knew that a dumb waiter could have the same effect as a horror movies cellar (I won’t be using either for the foreseeable future!)? And it’s a twisty, turny read with some really good red herrings along the way.

I loved every minute of this, and highly recommend it - maybe it’s best not to be read just before you go to bed, though!

Many thanks to The Pigeonhole for another fantastic serialisation.