The Turn of the Key

Ruth Ware

An intelligent combination of gothic atmosphere, modern paranoia and domestic drama. Their dream home will become her worst nightmare. The ad seems too good to be true: An in-house nanny with incredibly high earnings, which Rowan can not ignore. When he arrives at the Heatherpri House, he is thrilled with the luxurious "smart" house and the seemingly perfect family. What she does not know is that she is heading for a nightmare - which ends with a dead child and herself in prison, waiting to be tried for murder. Ruth Ware pays homage to the classic Henry James screw twisting, taking us into her own dark universe. A novel with a masterfully crafted plot, which leads the reader to an unexpectedly subversive ending, against the backdrop of the secluded Scottish luxury residence in Heatherbury.