Which means someone else is.įull of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, this 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 children, 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, Rowan struggles to explain the unravelling events that have led to her incarceration. What Rowan doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare-one that will end with a child dead and Rowan in prison awaiting trial for murder. And when she arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten-by the luxurious “smart” house 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-with a staggeringly generous salary. When Rowan stumbles across an ad for a live-in nanny, she’s looking for something else completely. The #1 instant bestseller from the Agatha Christie of our times. Ruth Ware’s (best) novel The Turn of the Key is set to be adapted for the big screen with a script written by Spiral star Max Minghella and Rocketman‘s Jamie Bell, reports Deadline.

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