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Chargement... The turn of the key (édition 2019)par Ruth Ware
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Lots of tension and twists to the very end. ( ) This was the first book I have read by this author. I enjoyed it but didn't like the open-ended ending. Rowan Caine in jail for a murder she swears she did not commit. She starts a letter to an attorney several times trying to tell her story but can't get it "right". This book is her letter to the attorney. It starts when Rowan is searching for something on Google and she stumbles across an ad for a nanny for a family with 4 girls in Scotland. She applies and travels from London to Scotland for the interview with the mother (father is traveling) and meets 3 of the 4 girls (the oldest is in boarding school, the middle 2 are in elementary school and the baby is just shy of 1 year). The house is quite remote and her travels were long so she stayed overnight. Before she left, one of the girls hugs her and says "Don't come - the ghosts won't like it". Rowan brushes it off, returns to London to get some stuff and returns to the home to start her job. It's a "smart" home and everything is controlled by an app which takes some getting used to. Rowan quickly learns that she is one of many nannies the family has had in a short timeframe and all of the other nannies left pretty quickly. Her bedroom is on the top floor of the house and at night she hears creaking noises above her as if someone is pacing up there. After two sleepless nights, she is beginning to feel paranoid and is wondering why all the other nannies left and starts looking into the stories she's heard from people around town and Jack, the handyman of the house/grounds. She uncovers some disturbing things that took place there. Really well put together and plenty of puzzling little moments to solve! Although "The Turn of the Key" a bit slow at times, I enjoyed it. The characters were well developed and written, the creepy possibly haunted house setting is a favorite of mine, and overall it's just a solid mystery. That ending was a punch to the gut. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"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"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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