Lock every door : a novel / Riley Sager.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781524745141
- Physical Description: 368 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Dutton, 2019.
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Subject: | Contemporary women > Fiction. Apartment houses > Fiction. |
Genre: | Suspense fiction Mystery fiction. |
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- 11 of 13 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Fort Nelson Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 13 total copies.
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2019 May #1
The building manager's strange rules should have tipped Jules off that her new apartment-sitting gig was too good to be true: no visitors, no nights away from the apartment, and no speaking to the regular tenants unless spoken to. But, for the incredible pay and three months in NYC's legendary Bartholomew Building, Jules would agree to almost anything. She's between both jobs and apartments, so she isn't overcome with options, but doubt creeps in after she meets Ingrid, another Bartholomew apartment sitter, who confesses that the building scares her. That night, Jules hears a scream coming from Ingrid's apartment and is told the next morning that Ingrid secretly moved out in the night. Jules isn't buying it and searches for Ingrid, digging into the building's historic connection to a murderous cult. Through disoriented future interludes, Jules reveals that she's escaped the Bartholomew. But, escaped from what? Sager's third reinterpretation of iconic horror themes (following The Last Time I Lied, 2018) is an utterly riveting thriller that melds Rosemary's Baby with Sager's masterful storytelling. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews. - BookPage Reviews : BookPage Reviews 2019 July
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Captain Catherine Wells, commander of the spacecraft Sagittarius, perished on the wrong side of a wormhole in deep space. Or so NASA believed. Vessel, Lisa A. Nichols' debut thriller, opens nine years after the mission launched. Houston has just received a signal from the Sagittarius and makes contact with Catherine, who has few memories of her years in space and even fewer answers about what led her to this point. Soon she's back helping to oversee the launch of Sagittarius II, which will attempt the same fateful voyage on which Catherine lost her crew. NASA prodigy Cal Morganson is desperate to keep the upcoming mission safe and is sure Catherine is hiding something. He's rightâbut will exposing her secrets be enough? Vessel is a deliciously creepy dive through the wormhole.Â
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Layne Fargo's addictive Temper centers on the artists of the Chicago theater scene for a wildly different take on a job gone very wrong. Following struggling actress Kira Rascher and repressed director Joanna Cuyler, Temper begins at the audition for a play of the same name, an intense marital drama with a cast of only two. Malcolm Mercer, a towering figure in the community and Joanna's creative partner, plays the lead in all of their productions. Being cast opposite Malcolmâa genius method actor or a gaslighting sociopath, depending on whom you askâspikes Kira's deep artistic ambitions like nothing before. Joanna has worked with Malcolm for years, quietly swallowing her own ambition and agency in order to remain in his orbit. The novel's violently sensuous suspense careens toward a chilling conclusion you'll never see coming.
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Lock Every Door by Riley Sager is a nightmarish thriller set against the backdrop of a Manhattan fairy tale. Jules Larsen has no living family, recently lost her job and just discovered her live-in boyfriend is cheating on her. So she swallows her better judgment and accepts an offer to apartment-sit in the legendary Bartholomew building. Within a day of starting, she begins to notice that many aspects of her new digs are off. She can't have visitors, and she must spend every night in the apartment. She isn't allowed to speak to the other residents. Most disturbingly, the other apartment sitters are as alone in the world as she is. The more she starts digging into the Bartholomew's history, the harder it is to dismiss the rumors that the building is cursed by some very disturbing magic. Readers who enjoy a touch of horror mixed with their suspense will love Lock Every Door.
Copyright 2019 BookPage Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2019 May #1
Another homage to classic horror from a bestselling author. Sager's debut novel, Final Girls (2017), wasn't so much a horror novel as a commentary about horror movies in novel form. It was clever but also very well-crafted. The author tried to do something similar with The Last Time I Lied (2018), with significantly less satisfying results. This new novel is another attempt to make the model work. Whether or not it does depends on how invested one is in formula for the sake of formula. Jules Larsen is getting over a breakup and the loss of her job when she finds a gig that seems too good to be true: The Bartholomew, a storied Manhattan building, wants to pay her thousands of dollars to simply occupy a vacantâand luxuriousâapartment. Jules soon gets the feeling that all is not as it seems at the Bartholomew, which is, of course, a perfect setup for some psychological suspense, but the problem is that there is little in the way of narrative tension because Jules' situation is so obviously not right from the very beginning. W hile interviewing for the job, she's asked about her health history. She's informed that she is not allowed to have guests in the apartment. She's warned that she must not interact with or talk to anyone else about the building's wealthy and famous inhabitants. And she learns that she will be paid under the table. While this might not be enough to deter someone who is broke and desperate, it does mean that Jules should be a bit more concerned than she is when the really scary stuff starts happening. It's possible to read this as a parody of the absurdly intrepid horror heroine, but, even as that, it's not a particularly entertaining parody. Jules' best friend makes a reference to American Horror Story, which feels less like a postmodern nod than a reminder that there are other, better examples of the genre that one could be enjoying instead. Lacking in both thrills and chills. Copyright Kirkus 2019 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2019 February #1
Sager follows up back-to-back
Copyright 2019 Library Journal.New York Times best sellers with a chiller set at the Bartholomew, a grand apartment building in Manhattan. Apartment sitting there to get some extra cash and relief from heartbreak, Jules befriends fellow sitter Ingrid, who proclaims that the building has a dark history. And then Ingrid disappears. - LJ Express Reviews : LJ Express Reviews
After experiencing the worst day of her life, Jules Larsen is heartbroken and broke. But life seems on the upswing when she answers an ad for an "apartment sitter" at the illustrious Bartholomew building in Manhattan. Against her best friend's warnings, Jules takes the position. She'll not only earn top dollar to stay in the building that was a centerpiece of her childhood dreams, but also have time to lick her wounds and search for a new job. Yes, there are strange rules: no visitors ever. And yes, it is odd that they need to know her blood type, family health background, etc. But soon Jules meets Ingrid, another Bartholomew apartment sitter, who shares her concerns about the building's ominous past. That night, Jules hears a scream coming from Ingrid's apartment, and the next morning Ingrid has disappeared. Jules's search for Ingrid exposes her to danger, as she unearths more ghastly stories about the building's residents. Sager (
Copyright 2019 LJExpress.Final Girls ) delivers a psychological, creepy, and unputdownable thriller. Likable characters, great writing, just enough twists, and aRosemary's Baby vibe will make this a summer hit. Purchase for Stephen King and Gillian Flynn fans. [See Prepub Alert, 1/23/19.]âMarianne Fitzgerald, Severna Park H.S., MD - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2019 May #3
Jules Larsen, the 25-year-old heroine of this compulsively readable thriller from bestseller Sager (
Copyright 2019 Publishers Weekly.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. Agent: Michelle Brower, Aevitas Creative Management. (July) - SLJ Express Reviews : SLJ Express Reviews
For Jules, becoming an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. That is, until other apartment sitters start to go missing. This novel is perfectly paced with a darkly fascinating conclusion. It features a young adult protagonist and is not as violent as many adult thrillers.
Copyright 2020 SLJExpress.VERDICT A good place for teens to start exploring the thriller genre.âElliot Riley, Deerfield Academy, MA