The Turn Of The Key (Paperback)

Ruth Ware, the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller returns with another page-turning psychological thriller.

When she stumbles across the advert, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss: a live-in nanny position, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten by the luxurious `smart' home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. What she doesn't know is that she's stepping into a nightmare - one that will end with a child dead and her in a cell awaiting trial for murder. She knows she's made mistakes. But, she maintains, she's not guilty - at least not of murder. Which means someone else is.

Full of spellbinding menace, The Turn of the Key is a gripping modern-day haunted house thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time.

General

Imprint:	Harvill Secker
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2019
Authors:	Ruth Ware
Dimensions:	234 x 153 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	343
ISBN-13:	978-1-78730-044-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller > General Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery > General
LSN:	1-78730-044-7
Barcode:	9781787300446

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Sun, 4 Aug 2019 | Review by: Breakaway R.

Suspenseful, secretive psychological thriller. Ruth Ware has done it again even better this time with a combination of modern technology and a sense of being in centuries past. Rowan Caine is determined to get a job as a nanny in an old home remodelled with high tech gadgets, by the architect owners Bill and Sandra Ellincourt. The reason for her determination to get the position as nanny unfolds as Ware's skilful brilliance leaves no clues as to where the plot will end. This makes yet another book of hers unputdownable. Rowan gets the excessively well-paid job that seems too good to be true and ends up awaiting trial for the death of one of the girls in her charge. She writes a letter to a lawyer she is hoping will listen to her reasoning and her side of the story because absolutely no one will listen to her. The bizarre events all lead to Rowan's apparent guilt. However, there are many secrets on all sides, and everything is not as it seems. But the secrets are deep and dark, leading to an unfathomable conclusion that leaves possibilities in the reader's mind for days. Ware's descriptions are made in vivid imagery that takes her readers right into Rowan's sad story and into the heart of the ancient home, made modern. BonnieK Breakaway Reviewers received a copy of the book to review.

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