The Locked Door

Blurb:

Some doors are locked for a reason…

While eleven-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.

Review:

I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

Bitch alarm!!! My god, how I dislike FMCs that are not likeable or relatable. But let's start at the beginning. I was looking forward to reading this book. It has been on my TBR forever and when I received the ARC I was over the moon. The daughter of a serial killer…do I need to say more? I was totally in. It is a fast-paced read and I read it within a day (not necessarily because it was that good). The chapters were short, which I liked and I enjoyed Nora her flashbacks.

Nora was only 11 when her father got arrested. It turned out he's a serial killer (’The Handyman’) and was sentenced to life in prison.
Twenty-six years later Nora changed her life completely; New name, no personal life whatsoever and is a Surgeon. No one can know she is the daughter of a serial killer. But…surprisingly….her past caught up and when her patients are found murdered the same way, as Daddy dearest killed his victims, Nora needs to find out who's doing the killings or was it her?

I couldn't handle Nora's bitch behaviour and for a surgeon, she was just stupid….like ffs stupid. I had more eye-roll moments than I could count. Anyways, moving on. The story left me with more questions than answers, which is probably my own fault as I want to know everything. We jumped back and forward in time (which was good) but were missing a bunch of years, like what happened?

There were too many repetitive moments and information dumps nobody cares about. And the end…I actually can't believe that for some it was surprising or Woahhhhh. It was ridiculous (no, I am not giving away spoilers). I closed the book and was like...was this it?! Now don't get me wrong as I normally like Freida her books but this was just a miss for me. I'm sure that readers who pick up a Thriller now and then will love it. If you like simple and fast-paced stories, this will be a good book for you. For me, this was a 2.5 read.