INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"A superb suspense writer...Brava, Ruth Ware. I daresay even Henry
James would be impressed." --Maureen Corrigan, author of So We Read
On
"This appropriately twisty Turn of the Screw update finds the Woman
in Cabin 10 author in her most menacing mode, unfurling a shocking saga
of murder and deception." --Entertainment Weekly
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lying Game
and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes this thrilling novel that
explores the dark side of technology.
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 events
that led to her incarceration. It wasn't just the constant surveillance
from the home's cameras, 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.
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--but somebody is.
Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware's signature
suspenseful style, The Turn of the Key is an unputdownable thriller
from the Agatha Christie of our time.
