The Safe Place

Superbly tense and oozing with atmosphere,Anna Downs’s debut is the perfect summer suspensewith the modern gothic feel of Ruth Ware and the morally complex family dynamics of Lisa Jewell. Welcome to paradise…will you ever be able to leave? Emily is a mess. Emily Proudman just lost her acting agenther joband her apartment in one miserable day. Emily is desperate. Scott Dennya successful and charismatic CEOhas a problem that neither his business acumen nor vast wealth can fix. Until he meets Emily. Emily is perfect. Scott offers Emily a summer job as a housekeeper on his remotebeautiful French estate. Enchanted by his lovely wife Ninaand his eccentric young daughterAureliaEmily falls headlong into this oasis of wine-soaked days by the pool. But soon Emily realizes that Scott and Nina are hiding dangerous secretsand if she doesn’t play alongthe consequences could be deadly.