The Turn of the Key

'Will hold you captive until the brilliant ending' SHARI LAPENA, author of The Couple Next Door

`So clever and original . . . Pure suspense, from the first gripping page to the last shocking twist' ERIN KELLY, author of He Said/She Said

I know you don't know me but you have to help me. I didn't kill anyone.

When Rowan stumbles across the advert, it seems like too good an opportunity to miss: a live-in nanny position, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when she 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 her in a cell awaiting trial for murder.

She knows she's made mistakes. But she's not guilty - at least not of murder. Which means someone else is...

'Creepy, engrossing, and oh-so-hard to put down' JP DELANEY, author of The Girl Before

'[Ruth Ware is] an adroit practitioner in the art of psychological suspense . . . Thoughtful and provocative' i newspaper

'A superior slice of ghostly suspense' Sarra Manning Red Online

Full of spellbinding menace, The Turn of the Key is a gripping modern-day haunted house novel.