The Turn of the Key By Ruth Ware
Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Fiction
Pages: 352 pages
Release Date: August 6th 2019
Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press
Plot: 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.
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.
Why I Need This Book: I have been such a big fan of Ruth Ware for a while now. She has become an auto-buy author for me. So when I heard she was coming out with a new book I got really excited. I have been hearing such good things about this book. Booksandlala, one of my favorite booktubers, recently read this and said it was her favorite by Ruth Ware. So I hope to get it around the time it comes out. I would like to read it next month if possible. So excited to see if I end up enjoying this one just as much as her.
Have you gotten to read this early? If so what are your thoughts on it? If not, are you guys interested in picking this up? I would love to hear your thoughts on it. I seriously can’t wait for them to come out!
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I really need to read my ARC of this ASAP. She really is a wonderful writer and her stories are always amazing.
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Have you read it yet? I think hands down this is my favorite by her so far. She really is such a great writer.
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Yes I did! I LOVED it 5/5 stars. I wrote up a whole review for it.
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Oh yay!! I’m going to go look now for the review.
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