Lock Every Door
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3.9 • 51 Ratings
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- £4.99
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
They’ve offered you a luxury apartment, rent free. THE CATCH: you may not live long enough to enjoy it…
No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents.
These are the only rules for Jules Larson's new job as apartment sitter for an elusive resident of the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile private buildings and home to the rich and famous.
Recently heartbroken and practically homeless, Jules readily accepts the terms, ready to leave her past life behind.
Out of place among the extremely wealthy, Jules finds herself pulled toward other apartment sitter Ingrid. But Ingrid confides that the Bartholomew is not what it seems and the dark history hidden beneath its gleaming facade is starting to frighten her. Jules brushes it off as a harmless ghost story - but the next day, her new friend has vanished.
And then Jules discovers that Ingrid is not the first temporary resident to go missing…
Welcome to the Bartholomew…You may never leave.
From the New York Times bestselling author of FINAL GIRLS and LAST TIME I LIED: 'the author delivers the kind of unpredictable conclusion that all thriller readers crave - utterly shocking yet craftily foreshadowed...' New York Times Book Review
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jules Larsen, the 25-year-old heroine of this compulsively readable thriller from bestseller Sager (The Last Time I Lied), has hit rock bottom. Scarred by the deaths of her parents and the disappearance of her sister years before, she has recently lost her administrative assistant job and learned that her boyfriend has been cheating on her. With her finances perilously low, Jules responds to an ad for a house sitter at a Manhattan luxury apartment building, which turns out to be the Bartholomew, the setting for her favorite book, a bestselling novel published in the '80s about a 20-year-old orphan who lives there. In order to earn $12,000 for living in one of the Bartholomew's vacant apartments for three months, she must follow strict rules, which include absolutely no visitors and refraining from interacting with the other residents. Jules leaps at the opportunity, only to learn that the property is rumored to be haunted and that her acceptance of the job may be placing her in jeopardy. Fans of Ira Levin, to whom the book is dedicated, will be delighted by Sager's clever variation on a typical Levin plot.
Customer Reviews
Underwhelmed
I love Psychological Thrillers and I’ve read 13 of them over the last few months because of lockdown and not being able to go anywhere.
This author was recommended to me by someone else who loves Psychological Thrillers so I was expecting quite a lot but I’ve ended up being really underwhelmed with both.
The writing is good (although edits have missed a few things here and there) and the premise for the story was good but the pace was too slow for me.
I really like to be shocked at the end of a book with a reveal I never saw coming but, while I didn’t guess exactly what would happen at the end, by the time I got there I wasn’t that interested as I’d guessed who the suspicious people were.
I was just a little disappointed.
Far fetched is an understatement!
This book had me baffled and irritated by how unrealistic it is. While by no means is this book set in a dystopian world nor does it claim to be about devil worshipping, both of these themes come up during the second half seemingly out of the blue. The protagonist is the most basic, boring, and dim character in the book, yet she somehow manages to dissect an ancient mystery AND put a stop to it, all by herself. The first half of this story is boring, and when it does pick up around half way in, the “twist” is so far fetched (and quite frankly ridiculous) that it’s a wonder my eyes didn’t hurt from all the rolling they did. Save your time, money, and sanity.