Lock Every Door by Riley Sager Also by this author: Final Girls, The Last Time I Lied, Home Before Dark, The House Across the Lake
Published by Penguin on July 2, 2019
Genres: Fiction, Psychological, Suspense, Thrillers
Pages: 384
Format: eARC
Source: the publisher (egalley)
Jules Larsen lost her job and broke up with her boyfriend (thereby losing her home) on the same day. Thankful for friends for putting her up but also desperate to stand on her own two feet, she's thrilled to accept a new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, a prominent yet mysterious building in Manhattan. She's so desperate that she agrees to the job despite the strange rules: no guests (ever!), no nights spent away from her apartment, no socializing with the rich and famous residents). Ready to start her life over, she looks forward to living in the luxury of the Bartholomew.
She's quickly drawn to Ingrid, another apartment sitter. Ingrid reminds her a lot of her sister who went missing when Jules was a young teen. When Ingrid eludes to the Bartholomew's dark history, Jules initially blows it off. Then she hears a scream in the middle of the night and Ingrid goes missing; just what did she get herself into!?
As she looks into Ingrid's disappearance, she slowly unveils the shocking history of the Bartholomew. It's not only Ingrid's life that is in danger, but her very own. She soon learns there is no way to really leave the Bartholomew....alive that is.
If you haven’t read this author’s previous work (Final Girls, The Last Time I Lied) you really need to get on it! Sager excels at crafting characters you can’t fully trust with…questionable backgrounds. I’m usually could at solving endings but this author continues to throw me for a loop each and every time; this is one of the reasons I’m so obsessed with his writing.
The setting of the Bartholomew is completely chilling; an old building complete with gargoyles and dumbwaiters. It has a sordid past that adds to the chill; the apartment Jules is assigned to was once slave quarters. A sheer intensity floods from the pages as Jules continues her search for answers.
Looking for a thriller to chill you to the bone this summer? Put this one at the top of your list. Highly recommended!
