The Turn of the Key

by Ware, Ruth
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ISBN: 9781501188787
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Overview

An instant New York Times bestseller and "shocking saga of murder and deception" (Entertainment Weekly) that explores the dark side of technology from the #1 bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway.

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 events that led to her incarceration. It wasn't just the constant surveillance from the home's cameras, 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.

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. But, she maintains, she's not guilty--at least not of murder--but somebody is.

"For all of the novel's contemporary touches--particularly the house's malevolent smart technology-- Ware] has delivered an old-fashioned horror story" (The New York Times Book Review) and "even Henry James would be impressed" (The Washington Post).

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Ware, Ruth
  • ISBN: 9781501188787
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.20 x 1.10
  • Number Of Pages: 384
  • Publication Year: 2020

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