![]() Now, normally I’m not the biggest fan of an epistolary novel (a story told through letters, journal entries, etc.), but the way Ware structures the narrative, it doesn’t read like Rowen is writing a letter at all. What’s great about this thriller is right from the get-go, Ruth Ware hooks you with Rowen’s statement to her potential lawyer: I didn’t kill anyone. Lights turn on and off, the house blasts music at odd hours on its own, and then there’s the strange sound of footsteps on the ceiling in Rowan’s bedroom when she lives on the top floor… A child is dead, and she’s awaiting trial for murder, but did she do it? What started out as a simple live-in nanny position in a house that’s a mixture of Victorian and modern, with “Smart House” technology, in the Scottish Highlands turns into a nightmare as Rowen struggles to come to terms with the strange events unraveling before her before she was incarcerated. Ruth Ware’s The Turn of the Key is an adult thriller that begins with Rowen Caine writing a letter to a potential lawyer from prison. ![]() It is unpolished and unpleasant, and I don’t pretend I acted like an angel. “I am telling you the truth. The unvarnished, ugly truth. ![]()
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