Nora’s Locked Past Reopens With Surgical Precision
Nora’s hidden family history becomes a clean, sinister thriller engine in Freida McFadden’s hands. The surgeon protagonist adds a sharp professional edge, while the serial-killer legacy gives readers the uneasy pleasure of wondering whether the past can ever stay buried.
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Nora’s Locked Past Reopens With Surgical Precision
Nora’s hidden family history becomes a clean, sinister thriller engine in Freida McFadden’s hands. The surgeon protagonist adds a sharp professional edge, while the serial-killer legacy gives readers the uneasy pleasure of wondering whether the past can ever stay buried.
- Book Synopsis
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A twisty psychological thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Housemaid and The Coworker!Some doors are locked for a reason…While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement.Until the day the police arrived at their front door.Decades later, Nora's father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence.
Nobody knows about her past, and she'll do anything to keep it that way.Then one of her young female patients is murdered, killed in the same unique and horrific manner that her father used to kill his victims.Somebody knows who Nora is. Somebody wants her to take the fall for this unthinkable crime. But she's not like her father. The police can't pin anything on her.
As long as they don't look in her basement…From Sunday Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a riveting psychological thriller about guilt, secrets, and whether it's possible to outrun what's in our blood.
Ideal for readers who:
- Devour Freida McFadden psychological thrillers focused on deeply hidden pasts and disturbing family horrors.
- Follow successful surgeon Nora Davis as a string of new murders chillingly echo her father’s historic crimes.
- Are gripped by dark basement secrets, subverted medical authority and suspicion returning decades later.
- Respond to twist-led narrative suspense where guilt, bloodlines and personal identity all feel highly unstable.
- About The Author
- #1 New York Times, #1 Sunday Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and internationally bestselling author Freida McFadden is a physician who lives in Boston with her family. Freida is the winner of the International Thriller Writer Award for Best Paperback Original, the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Thriller, and was honored as one of TIME 100's most influential people in the world for 2026. Her novels have been translated into more than forty-five languages.
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- ISBN
- 9781464221354
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Poisoned Pen Press, (28 November 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Weight
- 229 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 199 x 129 x 20 mm
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