Book Review - The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

Title: The Turn of the Key
Series: -
Author: Ruth Ware
 
Description: 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, byt the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by the 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.
 
Review: A thriller set in a mysterious house, with a family who isn’t as picture-perfect as they seem.
 
Rowan Caine thinks she has found the dream job: working as a nanny in a luxury mansion, for an amazing salary. When she gets the job, she moves from London to the Scottish Highlands to live with the Elincourt family with four daughters. Unfortunately, most dreams are deception, including this one.
 
Rowan finds out as soon as she moves into the mansion. Many nannies have gone before her, all of which have not lasted long. The only question is: why? One thing is clear, the children aren’t jumping up and down of excitement to meet yet another nanny.
 
As soon as Rowan start working for the Elincourts, both parents have to leave for work and Rowan is left alone with three of the four children. She meets the hostile housekeeper and the kind handyman/ driver. And strange things start to happen. It all starts to look like someone wants her gone.   
 
The book starts with Rowan writing a letter, to a lawyer, because she is in prison for a crime that she, so she claims, hasn’t committed. Through this letter, we are experiencing the story. I was surprised with that, I didn’t expect it. It’s written from the I-perspective, which seems the logical choice and I really like it.
 
Even though you already know from the start that a child will die and that Rowan is the one blamed for it, the story is anything but predictive. Author Ruth Ware managed to give the story some surprising twists. And everyone has secrets, not just the house and the family that lives in it.
 
I really loved “The Turn of the Key” and I’m very excited to read more of Ruth Ware’s books.
 
Rating: 4,5/ 5