Some doors should never be opened.
Was it bitter, all-consuming jealousy? Pathological sibling rivalry? Pure insanity?
Whatever the cause―and everyone has a theory―it’s the Crime of the Decade when glamorous Georgia Cartwright, who was adopted as a newborn, is accused of killing the biological daughter of her wealthy, Southern family.
Georgia is locked in a psychiatric institution where the most violent offenders are held while she awaits trial. The only words she whispers when her estranged twin sister Amanda visits are, “I didn’t do it. You’ve got to get me out of here.”
Amanda doesn’t trust Georgia, but she can’t abandon her in a place so eerie and menacing that it seems to exist in another dimension. Is Georgia the victim of a powerful family that’s so depraved murder is the least of their crimes? Or is Amanda being led down a path of madness into the web of a master manipulator?
Look, I’m a sucker for a trashy domestic thrillers. Toss in a narcissist and/or unreliable narrator? Like catnip. Like, I’ve read pretty much everything Frieda McFadden has written. And no, they are not all good. Most of them aren’t. BUT they are entertaining.
The Locked Ward is entertaining. The villains are fairy comical, the ending is too pat, and the very end twist is…silly. But the overall ride of the book is fun and kept me listening as I tried to guess who the bad guy was. That’s honestly pretty solid for one of these books. It could have been better. It could have been worse. It kept me entertained for a day or two. It’s like the cotton candy of domestic thrillers.
