The locked door : a novel
(Book)

When one of her surgery patients is found murdered, Nora realizes the manner is eerily similar to her father's serial killings decades earlier.

When eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Decades later, her father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet existence. When Nora discovers that one of her young female patients was murdered-- in the same horrific manner that her father used-- she believes somebody wants her to take the fall for this crime. The police can't pin anything on her-- as long as they don't look in her basement.... -- adapted from back cover