The Locked Door by Freida McFadden (Paperback)

Nora Davis has spent her entire adult life trying to outrun the shadow of her childhood. At eleven years old, she was upstairs doing homework while her father carried out a series of killings in their basement. She never suspected a thing until the police arrived and exposed the truth that destroyed her family.

Now, years later, Nora works as a surgeon and keeps her life tightly controlled. She avoids close relationships, stays away from attention, and hides every trace of her past. Few people know who her father was, and Nora intends to keep it that way.

Her quiet routine shatters when one of her young patients is found murdered. The details match her father’s crimes so closely that Nora feels the air leave the room. Someone is copying him. Someone is targeting her.

As more evidence points in her direction, Nora realises that whoever is behind the killings knows exactly who she is. Every choice she has made to keep her past buried becomes a threat. The police begin to circle. Small details in her life no longer feel safe. Even her own home starts to feel compromised.

Nora knows one thing with certainty—she is not like her father. But with a killer framing her step by step, she must find out who is doing this before the police decide they have their answer. And she must hope they never search her basement.