Bart’s for short) has a gothic, cathedral-like facade, and is situated on Central Park West, one of Manhattan’s most exclusive streets. Opened in January of 1919, and only thirteen stories tall, The Bartholomew (St. She answers an ad for an apartment sitter that turns out to be at one of Manhattan’s most storied, (fictional) buildings. When we first meet Jules, she is down on her luck, and sleeping on a friend’s Manhattan apartment couch. When Jules was seventeen, her sister went missing when she was nineteen, both of her parents died under terrible circumstances. Lock Every Door’s protagonist is twenty-five year old Jules Larson, a sympathetic and resilient character, originally from Pennsylvania coal country. And the countdown structure of many of the chapters in Lock Every Door (“Six Days Earlier”, “Five Days Earlier”, “Four Days Earlier”, and so on) only adds to an ever-increasing sense of paranoia and dread. The distinctive, color-saturated, book jacket (this time, in a bold shade of pink)? Check.Ī gothic tone, and highly atmospheric, horror-influenced setting ( the birdcage-like elevator, slowly descending to the dank, crypt and maze-like corridors of the Bartholomew’s basement)? Check. Sager’s crime fiction amongst the most highly anticipated of the season! Riley Sager’s Lock Every Door is a gothic suspense - amateur detective - horror mash-up that shares many of the winning qualities that have made Mr.
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