The Locked Door

By: Freida McFadden

Narrated by: Shaina Summerville

Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins

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.

©2021 Freida McFadden (P)2021 Tantor

great story narration okay

I liked the book but the narration was just okay. every single line had the same tone to it even when not necessary.

Horrendous narrator

The story is fantastic. The narrator really makes it unbearable. Had to turn it off and just read.

New Author for Me

I love psychological thrillers - especially when there are twists I don't anticipate..this plot had a little bit of everything..family, romance, evil..believable characters! ..I even gasped aloud a few times and threw my hand over my mouth!

Story Good, Narrator Not Good

This story was good. Unfortunately, the woman narrating the story had a horrible voice. Sounds like she should be on Saturday Night Live skits or something. It distracted me from the story itself.

Cringe cringe cringe

I've never disliked a narrator more in my entire life. I had to speed up playback to 1.20x's just to be able to tolerate this book. I can't even review the book/story because of how terrible the narrating is. Please please have a new narrator redo this reading. I want to like the book/story, but I simply can't listen to it. I hate to bash this woman who preformed this book, but it's really that bad. It's either her 1st book, or not her genre. The pitch and tone and cadence was painful to sit thru. I'm sad because I want to know how it ends but I just can't listen to another moment of her talk. I'm sorry for being so brutal :( I hope she doesn't read these reviews.

Long

I didn’t like the longness it took and the story on the way to the end but it was ok. It got really good in the last 10 chapters. I didn’t want to not finish it once I was half way but had I known that before buying I would have saved it for later on down my wish list. Crazy turn of things and I expect a sequel to find out if the crazy sister rats her out

Amazing

I was hooked could not stop listening! The whole book was great! An ending you wouldn’t expected and kept you guessing the whole time!

That voice was SO irritating..... !

I barely made it through the audible, it's so annoying, I can't imagine who would enjoy listening to her voice. I quit so many times, but I liked the story.

Please redo narration

This narrator is the reason people don’t like audio books.
The story wasn’t terrible… but the flat, aggressive, whiny narration would kill any book.

Narrator voice

I couldn’t stand the narrator voice, I almost didn’t finish the book! But I’m glad I did! Good book and story!