Lock Every Door
"Lock Every Door" follows Jules, a down-on-her luck young woman who takes a questionable job apartment sitting in one of the oldest, most glamorous and certainly quite mysterious buildings in New York City. There are many rules to the job: no visitors, no nights spent away from the apartment and no disturbing other residents. What seems easy money at first becomes daunting as an isolated Jules searches for answers in another tenant's disappearance.
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Down on her luck, Jules takes a too-good-to-be-true apartment-sitting job at the Bartholomew, a fortress overlooking Central Park. The pay is huge, the rules are strict, and the previous sitter has gone missing.
Lock Every Door was written by Riley Sager and published in 2019. Sager has written several other standalone thrillers, including Final Girls, The Last Time I Lied, and Home Before Dark.
Lock Every Door is psychological thriller more than horror, with gothic atmosphere and a haunted-apartment-building premise. Most readers find it suspenseful rather than frightening.
Lock Every Door is 384 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Lock Every Door takes most readers 6 to 8 hours to finish.
Lock Every Door is a standalone novel by Todd Ritter, not part of a series.
Lock Every Door is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.