I was afraid that these characteristics would contribute to never connecting with her, but her character development was strong. Her parents are also both deceased and her sister Jane is missing, so she has no family roots. Jules is a somewhat nebulous main character, unattached and adrift having just broken up with her emotionally manipulative and cheating ex-boyfriend Andrew. During the initial interview, it seems as though her interviewer made sure that she had few family relationships and friendships, and detached herself from the world with no social media interactions or visitors.

The main character Jules is hired to apartment sit at the Bartholomew, a ritzy and notoriously creepy and dangerous building in Manhattan, in exchange for $12,000. As I have been reading a lot of contemporary fiction lately, I was in the mood for a thriller, and buddy read this with Heather from her Booktube channel Bookables. Even so, I was intrigued by the modern haunted house style basis of LOCK EVERY DOOR. I had mixed opinions about his previous two books – I enjoyed FINAL GIRLS but found THE LAST TIME I LIED to be tedious and lacking tension.

Riley Sager’s thrillers, with their vibrant covers and original premises, have been on everyone’s radar ever since the publication of FINAL GIRLS a couple years ago. What she discovers pits Jules against the clock as she races to unmask a killer, expose the building’s hidden past, and escape the Bartholomew before her temporary status becomes permanent. Searching for the truth about Ingrid’s disappearance, Jules digs deeper into the Bartholomew’s sordid past and into the secrets kept within its walls. When Ingrid confides that the Bartholomew is not what it seems and the dark history hidden beneath its gleaming facade is starting to frighten her, Jules brushes it off as a harmless ghost story… until the next day, when Ingrid disappears. Recently heartbroken and just plain broke, Jules is taken in by the splendor of her surroundings and accepts the terms, ready to leave her past life behind.Īs she gets to know the residents and staff of the Bartholomew, Jules finds herself drawn to fellow apartment sitter Ingrid, who comfortingly reminds her of the sister she lost eight years ago.

These are the only rules for Jules Larsen’s new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan’s most high-profile and mysterious buildings. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both.

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