Lock Every Door in On The Same Page

Dec 25, 2023 Christina Garcia rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favs, read-physical-collection

4.75⭐️

Wow, this one was a ride. A very gripping and thrilling plot with a fast paced, edge of your seat ending. The reveal/twist at the end of the book was darker than expected and it definitely bumped my rating up. This was my first riley sager book and it certainly won’t be my last.

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Aug 02, 2019 Vanesa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-thrillers

4.25 ⭐️

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Dec 04, 2022 Wyetha rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2022-good-reads-challenge

I truly enjoy all things Riley Sagar, and (no surprise) the novels I’ve read over the past year have been a delight.

Lock Every Door is basically summed up as…" the shit that rich people get away with", or "what rich people think they are entitled to". This is a story about an exclusive address in Manhattan. The Bartholomew is a behemoth of a building. Its classic gothic gargoyles and features have been premiered in every major movie or magazine, and the tenants are exclusive.

Famous or infamous I truly enjoy all things Riley Sagar, and (no surprise) the novels I’ve read over the past year have been a delight.

Lock Every Door is basically summed up as…" the shit that rich people get away with", or "what rich people think they are entitled to". This is a story about an exclusive address in Manhattan. The Bartholomew is a behemoth of a building. Its classic gothic gargoyles and features have been premiered in every major movie or magazine, and the tenants are exclusive.

Famous or infamous doctors, lawyers, and former starlets reside at the Bartholomew. However, this building also houses a few other unknown residents. House sitters are regulars at the building as the tenant bylaws (or whatever) have established that no apartment should be empty. Here enters your average house-sitter.

Paid to say in the apartment no less than 3 months for a whopping $12,000 dollars. But there are a few rules. No pictures, no social media, no outside guests, and no nights spent outside the Bartholomew. Sounds simple enough right..? So why are housesitters disappearing?

Enter our main character Jules, who was recently laid off from her job and split from a cheating boyfriend, Jules needs a fresh start. She can’t continue to sleep on her friends' couch so she figures that house sitting at the Bartholomew is a great way to earn some cash and get back on her feet.

At the initial interview, Jules was given the rules, told she would be paid in cash, and not to pester the residents, but she couldn’t help herself and would try to be personable when she could. Jules would befriend Ingrid (another house sitter) located directly below the apartment she was sitting.

They would start to send notes back and forth via the dumbwaiter, and after a grocery collision in the lobby, they would start to meet in the park and become friends. Jules and Ingrid would research and dig into the Bartholomew’s sorted past of suicides and bizarre murders.

When Ingrid failed to meet Jules at the park one afternoon, Jules would become concerned and start to ask questions. It didn’t help that the woman who hired Jules said that she up and quit in the middle of the night with no warning. Jules knew something was wrong and began to unravel what happened to her friend and the disappearance of all the missing house sitters.

This modern-day mystery was perfect and delves into past and present evils of the occult, and mystery surrounding the Bartholomew.
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