The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware | Expected publication: September 5th 2019 by Simon & Schuster |  384 Pages | Goodreads

✅ REVIEW

Another engaging novel from one of my favorite authors!

The story starts with Rowan, a former babysitter who is now imprisoned, we do not know the details of how she got there but she’s writing a letter to an attorney asking for help. In the letter she slowly reveals the events that led her to where she is now.

I love Ruth Ware’s books because they have a classic feel to it, the stories have gothic undertones and she reveals pieces of the story in a way that keeps you interested and wanting to know more. At the end, I wanted to go back and reread some sections, the pieces have fallen onto their places and wow, I did not see it coming.

The first half of the novel is a bit slow but once you past the midway point it’s a pageturner. Overall, I enjoyed it recommend it to readers of mysteries/thrillers and contemporary fiction.

Received ARC from publisher via Netgalley

✅ PUBLISHER’S DESCRIPTION

“When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss—a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine 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 herself in prison awaiting trial for murder.

Writing to her lawyer from prison, she struggles to explain the unravelling events that led to her incarceration. It wasn’t just the constant surveillance from the cameras installed around the house, or the malfunctioning technology that woke the household with booming music, or turned the lights off at the worst possible time. It wasn’t just the girls, who turned out to be a far cry from the immaculately behaved model children she met at her interview. It wasn’t even the way she was left alone for weeks at a time, with no adults around apart from the enigmatic handyman, Jack Grant.

It was everything.

She knows she’s made mistakes. She admits that she lied to obtain the post, and that her behavior toward the children wasn’t always ideal. She’s not innocent, by any means. But, she maintains, she’s not guilty—at least not of murder. Which means someone else is.”

✅ BOOK SOURCE AND FORMAT

ARC, ebook