This book was good from start to finish. It keeps you guessing until the very last chapter. To be honest I did not give it 5 stars just due to the ending. I don't know I was hoping for a more dramatic ending lol. Other than that I enjoyed this book so much. Side note- I don't think anyone can guess the ending🤔🤔🤔

This is my fifth book by this author and it had me hooked from the start! The characters in this book are quite complex. It is literally like peeling away the layers of an onion to finally figure out who the real evil-doer is! Fast read, great twists! Freida! Freida! Freida! 5 STARS!!!

Tricia and her new husband Ethan go to look at a house for sale, only to get stranded in a blizzard. The house belonged to a psychiatrist that went missing 3 years ago. The beginning of this story is kind of boring but like all Freida books there is a good twist. So while I struggled to get into it, the last 30% was really good. Interesting and definitely didn’t see it coming. This is told in dual POV in Tricia and Dr Hale.

A great psychological read, when you think you have figured things out, you find out that you are incredibly wrong. I am new to knowing Freida McFadden and she came highly recommended by so many people. I enjoyed the plot, the twists and the turns. This is the first book I’ve ever finished as an adult in less than 3 days. I was captivated and couldn’t stop reading. Job well done.

The reason for only giving this 3x stars ⭐️ is bc of the way the author does the twists. In typical Frieda form -if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, sounds like a duck it’s actually a chicken 🐔 This story is about a newlywed couple who drive out into a snowstorm to look at a house their realtor told them about. It’s a secluded home that’s very isolated. Immediately the wife, Tricia has a bad feeling about it. Ethan the husband is excited. The house is dark save for one light they saw from the road on the 2nd floor. The door is locked and the first floor is dark. No realtor in sight, no phone service or cell phone signals and it’s freezing outside. They manage to find a spare key and enter. It’s completely furnished and has thick dust everywhere. Ethan falls in love with the house even though its creepy. They discover that the house was owned by a renowned psychiatrist who went missing 3 years prior and is believed to have been murdered by her boyfriend even though her body has not been found. So as you see the beginning of the book is good, mysterious and interesting. Then as the book goes on, the author does the weird twist where you think it’s one person but turns out to be the other who acts clueless. 🤷‍♀️I love a good psychological thriller/mystery/with twists and turns but I don’t like when the twist isn’t cohesive to the story. If one person is the “bad guy” then why have their inner monologue sound as though they’re innocent?

I was not a fan of The Locked Door and wrote this author off until a friend recommended this one. I read it quickly and loved it! It kept my interest and definitely surprised me with its pleasant twist! It also got me in the mood for the upcoming spooky season! Great read!

I read this originally on kindle unlimited and loved this book so much I bought a paperback copy! My husband is reading it and enjoying it as I write this review, and my friend and sister are also enjoying this book! 4.5⭐️ Really well written, GREAT twists in the plot and lots of surprises. I loved the unreliability of the narrators. Overall this book was thrilling and enjoyable to read. I’d recommend it to friends!

If you’ve read even one of Freida McFadden’s psychological thrillers, you’re probably a fan like me. Dr. McFadden is a practicing physician who specializes in brain injury. Consequently, she knows a lot about the functioning, as well as the malfunctioning, of the human mind. And that serves her well when she sits down to write a psychological thriller. In “Never Lie” (2022, 292 pages in softcover), the author’s knowledge brings a number of characters with damaged minds to life, including Dr. Adrienne Hale (a renowned psychiatrist), EJ a dangerous narcissist, and PL a pleasant young woman who credits Dr. Hale with effecting a “cure.” But, for some unknown reason, Dr. Hale has gone missing shortly after the publication of her long-awaited magnum opus, “The Anatomy of Fear.” In a seemingly unrelated plot, newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are on their way to look at a house that’s away from the city, fairly isolated, and a great place to raise the children that they hope to have someday. The house is huge, magnificent, and underpriced. Ethan is immediately in love with the house, but Tricia is getting bad vibes. They arrive at the location in the middle of a blizzard, and they are snowed in. There are no land lines in the house, and their phones are not picking up a signal. But Ethan finds fresh food in the house and some very good wine in the cellar. However, the house has been unoccupied for years, and there are thick layers of dust covering everything. The presence of edible food is a mystery that’s never completely explained . Nevertheless, Ethan and Tricia (she, reluctantly) decide to hunker down for the weekend, hoping that their realtor will realize that they need help. But Tricia’s case of the heebie-jeebies simply will not be abated. She’s spooked by the giant painting of Dr. Hale above the fireplace and a series of strange noises that only she seems to be able to hear. Of course, Tricia doesn’t believe in ghosts, yet she can’t help wondering if Dr. Hale is haunting the house, sending subtle signals not to buy it. The house is filled with books, some academic but most popular novels. So, once the decision to stay is finalized, Tricia starts searching for something to read that will help to occupy the time that she and Ethan are stranded. When she attempts to remove a copy of Stephen King’s “The Shining,” she hears a click that seems to unlock a hidden door. The door opens to a secret room that holds a trove of tapes — the ones that Dr. Hale made during the sessions with her clients. Although she knows that Ethan doesn’t want her to snoop around, she grabs a batch of cassettes and takes them to Dr. Hale’s office, where there is a tape recorder. After listening to one tape, Tricia is hooked. The tapes provide many of the clues that the reader needs to solve the mystery, or so it seems. But Freida McFadden’s novels are seldom predictable. ...Jim Glynn