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Under Locke runs sixteen hours, and the three- cast — Ava Erickson, Bradley Ford, and Sebastian York — distributes the emotional weight in a way that sharpens the push-pull between characters rather than flattening it into a single perspective. At that runtime, the gritty atmosphere and dry wit in the writing have room to breathe, and the tension never tips into melodrama because the voices stay controlled even when the material doesn't. The bulk of the recommendations here are Zapata titles of roughly the same length, with Erickson returning on several of them — so the same slow escalation and sardonic undertow that make Under Locke click carry through most of the list.

10 books for fans of Under Locke

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    Wait for It

    by Mariana Zapata

    4.28 Goodreads (115.9K ratings)
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    Kulti

    by Mariana Zapata

    4.23 Goodreads (158.6K ratings)
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    From Lukov with Love

    by Mariana Zapata

    4.18 Goodreads (289.3K ratings)
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    The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

    by Mariana Zapata

    4.15 Goodreads (308.3K ratings)
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    Dear Aaron

    by Mariana Zapata

    3.90 Goodreads (57.3K ratings)
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    Hands Down

    by Mariana Zapata

    3.88 Goodreads (51.6K ratings)
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    Across the Vanishing Sky

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    by Catherine Cowles

    4.54 Goodreads (10.3K ratings)
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    Mistakes Were Made

    Story Lake • Book 2

    by Lucy Score

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    4.46 Goodreads (1.6K ratings)
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    By a Thread

    by Lucy Score

    4.07 Goodreads (179.2K ratings)