Heart racing, all suspense that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.. this book was absolutely thrilling. Talk about having me on the edge of my seat.. if you like suspense and thrillers you must read this book!! ( )

Wow! I have never read anything by this author but that will be fixed. This story is about Jules Larsen, who answers an ad for an apartment sitter in a famous building in Manhattan. The building was the subject of a book Jules and her sister, Jane, read when they were younger. So when Jules saw the ad she was excited for the opportunity to live in the building from that book. She goes to the building for an interview and sees the apartment she will be living in for the next 3 months. Easy way to make $12,000 over 3 months is what she thinks. While at the interview, she learns all of the rules she has to abide by while living there - no visitors, no drinking, no smoking, no visitors, no spending the night somewhere else and no getting to know the residents.

The residents all seem to be someone famous whether an author, actor/actress or executive. Before she moves in, her BFF Chloe tells Jules that the building has a sinister past and she shouldn't move in. Her first day there, she meets Ingrid, another apartment sitter in the apartment directly below the one Jules is in. They start talking and Ingrid informs Jules that the building "scares" her. Then Ingrid disappears. Jules is extremely concerned and starts looking for Ingrid.

Jules discovers Ingrid is not the first apartment sitter to go missing from this building. As she delves deeper into this mystery, she begins to fear for her own life. ( )

I was enthralled by every single second of this book! There isn't a single dull moment: no, Sager's "Lock Every Door" is perfectly paced and filled with a bizarre building dripping in gargoyles, apartment tenants who are both rich and mysterious, and this beautifully eerie sense of something that is not quite right, like a curtain rustling even though the window is closed. This is without a doubt the best thriller I have read in years, and I highly recommend it. It's an unsettlingly wondrous work of suspense that's going to get some hearts pumping. ( )

3.5/5
Isolation is the key to this thriller. Jewels is one of the most likable heroines you will ever read about. She has a tragic past that is more than anyone should go through and a tough situation at hand. She has no one, aside from a loving friend that she can’t share her new employment with. Her recent relationship had also ended in a lot of hurt, so no love life to speak of either. Complete isolation. It’s the perfect set up for what unfolds in this old and very admired apartment building.
The idea for this story is pretty good. The characters feel a bit YA for my taste, and the ending is cozy. Slow build, decent pay off, not bad reveal. I do appreciate how much respect Sager seems to have for women. ( )

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If something seems too good to be true....
I am constantly behind the curve ball with things. I know this book came out in July of this year. I didn’t get my hands on it until August and that was only because I ran across it on Scribed. I have to my eyes open for the next book by Riley Sager books.
Jules has had a string of bad luck, starting with getting laid off from her job, followed by discovering her live-in boyfriend banging another woman. She ends up near penniless, sleeping on her BFF's sofa until she finds a classified ad for an apartment sitter. $12,000 to occupy a luxury apartment in the Bartholomew—a New York high society landmark—for three months. It sounds too good to be true, especially given the building is the fairy-tale setting of a novel that bound Jules and her sister as teens. The job comes with severe rules. No visitors allowed, no social media, no conversation with the rich and famous residents. She must leave the apartment in the condition she found it, and stay in the apartment every night.

Jules had my sympathy throughout the book, and I felt she was a worthy protagonist. She had a lot of grief in her early background and was in an unenviable state as the well-plotted story begins. She gets comfortable and soon starts to make friends with another apartment sitter, Ingrid. Jules learns that the Bartholomew has a dark, creepy and scandalous history and reputation and that Ingrid is becoming unnerved staying there, but like Jules needs the money. When Ingrid disappears without warning in the middle of the night, Jules becomes suspicious and frightened that her surroundings hold threatening and eerie secrets. I won’t give up too much more information on the story because I want you all to pick it up and give it a read for yourself. I loved that listening to it added so much more of a spooky factor for me. Well rounded thriller solid 4 stars.
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