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The Locked Door
- Narrated by: Shaina Summerville
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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The Locked Door
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Publisher's Summary
Some doors are locked for a reason....
While 11-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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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Mousumi Rao
- 11-04-23
Challenging narration, storyline was ok.
Nora is a doctor. That's a profession that saves lives. Nora has this constant need to prove (to herself) that she was different. Different from her father, who broke her home and sense of family by killing 30 odd women in the basement of their home. It would sound thrilling as a story that some other child's parent was a monster and murderer. It was obviously not a good feeling to actually be the daughter of a horrid man.
I found Nora to be constantly on tenterhooks. She was good at her job but the knife in her hand could turn her either into a messiah or a murderer. I was intrigued of her childhood story and wondered if the traits could come down generations. (It quite reminded me of a certain episode from Defending Jacob about this killer instinct/gene. There was supposedly another book called, In My Father's Basement, which handled a similar story line.)
Nora's father was in prison and her mother had killed herself in her cell. Nora had dealt with abandonment bravely. She had no faith in relationships and moreover she had killed the old identity when her grandmother took her in, ensuring she turned out to be a different person.
As Nora trudges along as a surgeon, she one day comes to know that one of her patient's was murdered and more shockingly, that she was murdered in the same MO as her father had resorted to. As one more murder shakes her world, Nora is shaking in fear.
Had her father been released from his high security prison, where he has been for the last 26 years? If it wasn't him, was there a copycat killer on the prowl? Why was this killer aiming at her patients? Why was this killer leaving severed limbs in her house or her car? Was she involved in these killings without her knowledge?
As I tackle as many McFadden books as I can, The Locked Door was a better story line than Never Lie. I like the concept of mind games have been addressed. I could not lower the volume of the audiobook as I would have missed out the dialogues... so I quietly "adjusted" (mildly suffered) through the narrator's voice. Those listening to this one, try to listen to it on the phone or iPad speaker instead of earphones.
Some sentences made me giggle:
“I hate it when there’s a load of laundry sitting in the dryer. It’s like I can sense the laundry in there, taunting me. Put me away, Nora. That’s not strange, is it? Doesn’t everyone’s laundry talk to them?”
Then there was the one about how Nora described her mother. If there was a book about mothers, it would surely describe my mother, she says. Her ultimate job is to only keep feeding me! I could almost see my son's rolling eyes in my head :D
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 18-04-24
The unexpectedness of it all
I liked the way the narrative was structured, the story didn’t feel long or drawn out
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- Susan M. F.
- 19-09-23
Good plot, poor performance though!
I actually liked the storyline and as much as the twists and turns seemed familiar the ending was sufficiently unexpected. However the narration was quite unsatisfactory with a very odd almost angry and brash sound to it. Just generally the narration took away from the story most of the time.
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- Chitra M.
- 11-07-23
Loved the twists
The storyline is very Freida, if you know what I mean. Characters are built up well and the readers are kept on edge as to who it might turn out to be.... love the end....and the very end of the epilogue is 'gasp'....
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- Ananya
- 09-04-24
Please don't use this narrator again.
Story is good, great climax, but worst performance. At every end of the chapter had the urge to put down because of the irritable voice, but the story is appealing. So finally finished it.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- SAKrishnan
- 06-11-23
Twisted enjoyable thriller
Nora’s story moves from the past to the present and starting from the ‘Old-fashioned’ she is having, even in her present, nothing about her seems normal. Given that her father is a serial killer, nothing in her life can be normal. The people whom she meets also give off an uneasy vibe. But the story moves at breakneck pace and it was made more thrilling because Nora was the narrator of the story.
The cat, Majorie in the past, and some of the way that she deals with her cases, makes it an even more enjoyable twisted story. Liked it.
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- 15-11-23
Excellent plot but weak narration by the narrator
The plot and execution by the writer is excellent though I would have given it 5 star if the narrator had done a better job.
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- Lafe Sion
- 17-02-24
Twist comes in the end
Story builds up nicely. Romance, intrigue, and bad narration, perhaps one of worst narrator amongst over 150 books I have.
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- Rockstar_Soccer
- 25-01-24
mind-blowing climax
a slow paced story with a killer twist at the end. Things connect very well at the end though you feelt eh lead character is being stupid throughout the book
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 28-11-23
Narration 😣
The story is fine but I hate the narration. Could have been so much better with good narration.
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