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The Girl in the Locked Room

  • 2015 first published
  • 205 pages
  • ★ 4.3 (6 ratings)
  • 4 editions

Mary Downing Hahn's The Girl in the Locked Room (2015) is a ghost story novel. Much of the action takes place in Virginia. Readers will find themes of families, family life, extrasensory perception and fate and fatalism.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.3 out of 5 from 6 ratings, and 92 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 4 editions.

At about 205 pages, most readers finish it in 3–4 hours.

About The Girl in the Locked Room

Told in two voices, Jules, whose father is restoring an abandoned house, and a girl who lived there a century before begin to communicate and slowly, the girl's tragic story is revealed.--
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Tropes

Setting

Subjects

  • Ghost stories
  • Families
  • Family life
  • Extrasensory perception
  • Fate and fatalism
  • Haunted houses
  • Ghosts
  • Friendship
  • Children's fiction
  • Virginia

Quick answers

Who wrote The Girl in the Locked Room?

The Girl in the Locked Room was written by Mary Downing Hahn and first published in 2015.

What genre is The Girl in the Locked Room?

It is usually shelved as Ghost Stories.

How long is The Girl in the Locked Room?

The median edition has 205 pages, about 3–4 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The Girl in the Locked Room?

Readers who like it often enjoy Haunted, The dead girls of Hysteria Hall and El Príncipe de la Niebla.

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