The Turn of the Key

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A superb suspense writer…Brava,Ruth Ware. I daresay even Henry James would be impressed.” —Maureen Corriganauthor of So We Read On “This appropriately twisty Turn of the Screw update finds the Woman in Cabin 10 author in her most menacing modeunfurling 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 adshe’s looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss—a live-in nannying postwith a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae Houseshe is smitten—by the luxurious “smart” home fitted out with all modern conveniencesby the beautiful Scottish Highlandsand 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 prisonshe struggles to explain the events that led to her incarceration. It wasn’t just the constant surveillance from the home’s camerasor the malfunctioning technology that woke the household with booming musicor turned the lights off at the worst possible time. It wasn’t just the girlswho 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 timewith 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 postand that her behavior toward the children wasn’t always ideal. She’s not innocentby any means. Butshe maintainsshe’s not guilty—at least not of murder—but somebody is. Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful styleThe Turn of the Key is an unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time.