Finished: The Locked Door (McFadden) I haven't read an entire book in one day in a long, long time! This was the story of Nora, a 37 year old surgeon, who also happens to be the daughter of a notorious serial killer who was caught and imprisoned 26 years before...when his 11 year old daughter, Nora, turned him in. Nora was always a bit of a strange child, but she drew the line at finding a missing local woman in a cage down in her father's "work basement". Now, with her mother having committed suicide shortly after, and her grandmother raising her (first order of business, changing Nora's last name), Nora is a successful surgeon in a private practice where nobody knows who she is. She's also very closed off to having any kind of long term relationship, and her father, who is in prison for the rest of his life and who she hasn't communicated with in 26 years, continues to write her a letter a week which she rips up without reading. Nora's life begins to unravel when the police question her about not one, but two of her recent patients, who have turned up dead. And, not just dead, but dead with their hands chopped off. Young, dark-haired, blue-eyed women. Her father's exact M.O. When things start happening, like one of the missing hands from one of the girls is found in Nora's trunk, Nora reels and doesn't know who to trust and who to suspect in this elaborate setup. She's recently renewed a friendship with an old college boyfriend, Brady, who she'd only dated for 3 months, but who she's begun to have doubts about. And, her business partner and fellow surgeon, Philip, who is quite an overconfident skirt-chaser, has just set his sights on Nora's treasured office assistant, 25 year old, dark-haired, blue-eyed, Harper. Is Harper now in danger too? The ending is fast-paced, and I figured out who was setting Nora up to take the fall, but not why. It was a doozy! :-)
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