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Where Can I Read 'The Locked Door' For Free?

Looking for legal sites to access Freida McFadden's thriller online. New to the author's novels and hoping to avoid spoilers while finding a reliable source.
2025-06-25 05:42:02
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annie-sullie
annie-sullie
You can also check out WebNovel and NovelFull for novels, but the translation is typically by aggregators and can vary greatly in quality. It’s usually better to search for the original novel and see if the publisher has put it up on their website for free (usually you can read the first couple of chapters). I just finished reading the thriller ‘Don’t Lock Me In Again’ by this writer and it was really good, especially the mystery of who was actually writing to the protagonist after she moved back into her childhood home. It was free to read on the writer’s platform for a very long time, so you might still be able to read it there.
2026-07-18
Elijah
Elijah
I came across The Locked Door on free reading platforms a month or so ago. Of the sites I looked at, the most reliable seemed to be the likes of Project Gutenberg and ManyBooks, which offer plenty of free classic and public domain books. Some sites like Scribd offer free trials which allow you to access books like this for free for a short period of time. Your local public library often has an app like Libby or OverDrive which allows you to borrow e-books and audiobooks for free, and they are usually included in the catalog. Watch out for sites which offer apparent free e-books as they are likely to be pirating books or even infecting your computer with malware. If you like this sort of psychological thriller, I’d recommend The Silent Patient which is also available on many of these sites.
2025-06-27
Jade
Jade
I’ve been searching for free e-books for years. Often the easiest way to find a specific title for free is to first check the e-collections of your local public library, which are often partnered with services such as Hoopla that offer free e-books to library patrons with a library card. Sometimes an author will even offer a free chapter or two in their newsletter to subscribers.

You might also be able to find ‘The Locked Door’ as an e-book or audiobook on archive sites such as Open Library, where you can borrow individual titles (alike a physical library, where the most popular books have the longest wait). I usually recommend checking out similar titles, such as The Girl on the Train, which are often available as free audiobooks on volunteer-driven sites like Librivox, which only publishes public domain works. (And, of course, always try to find authors’ work through legal channels — the impact of piracy on the industry as a whole is very real.)
2025-06-28
Zachary
Zachary
I found The Locked Door on Kindle Unlimited’s free trial. Sometimes Amazon runs a promotion where new customers get to use Kindle Unlimited for free for 30 days, which is great for a reading binge. Some book bloggers also run giveaways for books like The Locked Door, I found a copy last year after following some of the niche mystery reviewers on Twitter.

The web novel space has plenty of works of similar flavor to ‘The Locked Door’, if not the exact same work, on Wattpad, for instance. As for a darker alternative to ‘The Locked Door’, ‘Sharp Objects’ by Pulitzer Prize winnerGillian Flynn is available for free or at a low cost as part of Kindle ebook sales, and it’s a great choice. Be aware, though, that the term ‘free’ does not always guarantee good quality and one should stick to established retailers offering well-formatted, complete editions.
2025-06-30
Denise
Denise
I downloaded the first few chapters of this one and put it down after that. Readable, but kinda bland and somewhat predictable. I wouldn’t recommend wasting your time with this one when there are better novels out there.
2026-08-02

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