Lock Every Door
Riley Sager, 2019
Mystery, thriller & crime HorrorContemporary fiction
A broke young woman takes a dream apartment-sitting job in a Gothic Manhattan building, where the rules are strange and the neighbors are watching.
Feels like dread, unease and curiosity. About society, freedom and morality.
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The part of poverty that people who haven't lived it miss.
Because here’s the thing about being poor—most people don’t understand it unless they’ve been there themselves. They don’t know what a fragile balancing act it is to stay afloat and that if, God forbid, you momentarily slip underwater, how hard it is to resurface. Riley Sager.Riley Sager is the pen name of Todd Ritter, a former journalist who wrote three mystery novels under his own name before switching to thrillers.
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Questions readers ask
- What is Lock Every Door like?
- Feels like dread, unease and curiosity. About society, freedom and morality.
- What should I read after Lock Every Door?
- If you liked Lock Every Door, try The Tenant (Freida McFadden), The Woman in the Window (A.J. Finn) and The Couple Next Door (Shari Lapena).
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When a feeling stops being an emotion and starts being a growth.
Something’s happening to me, through me, something dangerous and new. It’s taken root, a poison tree; it’s grown, fanning out, vines winding round my gut, my lungs, my heart.
The Woman in the Window · A.J. Finn
The moment a quiet house becomes the wrong kind of quiet.
Anne feels her scream inside her own head and reverberating off the walls-her scream is everywhere. Then she falls silent and stands in front of the empty crib, rigid, her hand to her mouth. Marco fumbles with the light switch. They both stare at the empty crib where their baby should be. It is impossible that she not be there. There is no way Cora could have gotten out of the crib by herself. She is barely six months old.
The Couple Next Door · Shari Lapena
What it costs to make yourself unnoticeable in a crowded room.
She was trying to make herself as small as possible, blending into the background, going unnoticed. But to me, she was the only person in that room.
The Perfect Marriage · Jeneva Rose
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