Title: The Turn of the Key
Author: Ruth Ware
Narrator: Imogen Church
Rating: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
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I am absolutely in love with this book, and even more so because of the amazing narration. All of the praise to Imogen Church, the narrator, for such a wonderful job conveying all the character voices and all of the emotions. You could not only hear but also feel all of the fear, the grief, the desperation, and the anger as they were felt by Rowan. The spooky sounds/voices, as well as the creepy voices were also all well conveyed by the narrator. It was all such a wholesome experience.
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Moving to the story – it was totally awesome. It was a sad story but it was so well written and so well executed. It was easy to get carried along with Rowan’s (the main character and the narrator of the events that led her to jail) story, as told in a letter to a would-be solicitor. It was downright creepy and scary. I had to leave the lights on in my room while I listened to it at night.
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The plot twists and big reveals towards the end and at the end really made my head spin and I couldn’t help feeling very sorry for Rowan.
There was one huge unanswered question for me in the end, though, but I guess how things turned out didn’t really leave room for that question to be answered.
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If this book is currently on your TBR, you definitely should bump it up and read it next. If it isn’t, you should think about adding it.
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Blurb/Synopsis
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware’s highly anticipated fifth novel.
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 unravelling events that led to her incarceration. 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. 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, Jack Grant.
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. She’s not innocent, by any means. But, she maintains, she’s not guilty—at least not of murder. Which means someone else is.
Full 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.
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