Lock Me In, Kate Simants
Lock Me In, Kate Simants
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Lock Me In

Author: Kate Simants

Narrator: Pene Herman-Smith

Unabridged: 15 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/12/2019

Synopsis

‘Intricately plotted, beautifully written…with great pace, truly sympathetic characters, and a great twist at the end’ Harriet Tyce, author of Whatever you do, don’t open the door… Praise for Shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger award By day, Ellie Power has a normal life. She has a stable home, a loving boyfriend, a future. But at night, she suffers from a sleep disorder. She becomes angry, unpredictable, violent. Her mother locks Ellie in her bedroom every night, to keep them both safe. Then one morning, Ellie wakes up, horrified to find the lock on her bedroom door smashed from the inside. She is covered in injuries, unable to remember anything about the night before. And her boyfriend Matt is nowhere to be found… ‘Intricately plotted, beautifully written’ , author of ‘This ambitious and wide-reaching novel had me hooked from the very first page’ , author of ‘One of the best debuts I have ever read’ , author of 'A flawlessly written, jaw-dropping, chilling and twisty psychological thriller' , author of ‘A disturbing psychological thriller’ , author of ‘The characters are fresh, the dialogue sharp’ , author of ‘A stunning debut. Gripping, compelling and skilfully crafted’ , author of

Reviews

Goodreads review by Julie (JuJu) on October 18, 2019

4.5 Emotional, Clever and Unpredictable ⭐️‘s for this debut thriller! Thrillers and mental illness are the perfect match! Like the PB&J of books! When I’m skimming through a book blurb, certain phrases pop out...Psychopath, Sociopath, DID (Split Personality), Multiple Personality, Serial Killer...the......more

Goodreads review by Sumit on October 14, 2020

Lock Me In is an exciting psychological thriller. The book at its heart is a psychological thriller with elements of mystery. Ellie Power has a normal life. She has a stable home, a loving boyfriend, and a bright future. But at night, she suffers from a sleep disorder. She becomes angry, unpredictab......more

Goodreads review by Ceecee on October 03, 2019

I thought this was an outstanding debut novel which had me gripped from start to finish. Eleanor (Ellie) Power suffers from DID, her other persona is Siggy who is evil and when Ellie goes into a fugue state, Siggy takes over. Ellie has the distinctive feature of one green eye and one blue which she......more

Goodreads review by Louise on September 28, 2019

Ellie Power is just a typical normal girl except when it comes to bedtime. Her mother has to lock her in her room to keep everyone safe. Ellie has DID (Dissociate Identy Disorder), an illness that puts everyone around her at risk. It makes her a completely different person. One morning Ellie wakes t......more

Goodreads review by Bridgett on September 29, 2019

Another book that took me 6 days to read...never a good sign. Lock Me In had so much potential...but it was horribly bogged down with a lot of meaningless internal dialogue, and a very boring secondary story. I'll be honest, I felt like Mae's personal story, regarding his ex-wife and daughter, sh......more

Quotes

‘An intricately plotted, beautifully written police procedural with great pace, truly sympathetic characters, and a great twist at the end . Highly recommended’ Harriet Tyce, author of ‘This ambitious and wide-reaching novel had me hooked from the very first page. A complex, twisty narrative which drives relentlessly forward. Well developed, flawed and deeply human characters, gritty, atmospheric settings, fabulous research, and some really heart-wrenching sections. A story of scope and humanity, it will stay with me for a long time’ S. E. Lynes, author of ‘One of the best debuts I have ever read. Lock Me In is creepy, thrilling and completely immersive, genuinely impossible to put down. Kate Simants is a gifted writer with brilliant dialogue and characters you’ll be thinking about for a long time. I loved it’ Clare Empson, author of ‘Darkness, confusion, mistrust and betrayal – all the ingredients of a disturbing psychological thriller’ Rachel Sargeant, author of 'If you're after a flawlessly written, jaw-dropping, chilling and twisty psychological thriller – then this is THE book you MUST read! Kate Simants is an utterly thrilling, exciting new voice in the genre. I can't wait to see what she delivers next!' Sam Carrington, author of ‘A five star, unputdownable thriller that had me gripped from the very first page. Both chilling and heart-wrenching, I read it in one sitting!’ Caz Finlay, author of ‘The characters are fresh, the dialogue sharp… built up to a great twist that kept me reading into the small hours’ G. D. Abson, author of ‘A stunning debut. Gripping, compelling and skilfully crafted’ N J Crosskey, author of

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