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The estate encompasses acres of woods and trails that the children are free to roam about unattended. The house is a huge, beautiful old Victorian, but the back half has been totally converted into a sleek, glass-walled modern structure. The money involves a huge step up for her, she’s ready for a change, and as we later learn, she has other reasons for wanting the position too. To Rowan, this is simply too good to be true. A wealthy couple is offering a huge salary for a live-in nanny for their four children at their Scottish estate. And while Rowan admits that she’s done plenty wrong, she insists that she didn’t kill the child.įrom here, she relates her strange story, starting with the advertisement for a nanny. Rowan is in prison, awaiting trial for murdering a child left in her care. We meet Rowan as she reaches out by letter to a lawyer she’s heard about, one who might be able to turn around her hopeless case. I’ve been hearing about this book and author Ruth Ware for a while now, so it’s good to know what all the fuss is about!įrom the start, we know that there’s something off about the main character. The Turn of the Key is my book group’s pick for November, and I suppose I’m glad to have been “forced” to read it. Which means someone else is.įull 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. But, she maintains, she’s not guilty-at least not of murder.

She admits that she lied to obtain the post, and that her behavior toward the children wasn’t always ideal. 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 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 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. Writing to her lawyer from prison, she struggles to explain the unravelling events that led to her incarceration. 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. 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.

But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss-a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely.

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