The Flip of the Key

Immediate New York Instances greatest vendor

“An outstanding suspense author…Brava, Ruth Ware. I daresay even Henry James can be impressed.” (Maureen Corrigan, creator of So We Learn On) 

“This appropriately twisty Flip of the Screw replace finds the Lady in Cabin 10 creator in her most menacing mode, unfurling a stunning saga of homicide and deception.” (Leisure Weekly)

From the primary New York Instances best-selling creator of The Mendacity Sport and The Demise of Mrs. Westaway comes this thrilling novel that explores the darkish aspect of expertise. 

When she stumbles throughout the advert, she’s on the lookout for one thing else utterly. 

Nevertheless it looks as if too good a chance to overlook – a live-in nannying put up, with a staggeringly beneficiant wage. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae Home, she is smitten – by the luxurious “sensible” residence fitted out with all fashionable conveniences, by the attractive Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect household.

What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping right into a nightmare – one that may finish with a toddler useless and herself in jail awaiting trial for homicide.

Writing to her lawyer from jail, she struggles to elucidate the unravelling occasions that led to her incarceration. It wasn’t simply the fixed surveillance from the house’s cameras, or the malfunctioning expertise that woke the family with booming music, or turned the lights off on the worst attainable time. It wasn’t simply the women, who turned out to be a far cry from the immaculately behaved mannequin youngsters she met at her interview. It wasn’t even the way in which she was left alone for weeks at a time, with no adults round other than the enigmatic handyman.

It was every little thing.

She is aware of she’s made errors. She admits that she lied to acquire the put up, and that her habits towards the youngsters wasn’t at all times excellent. She’s not harmless, by any means. However, she maintains, she’s not responsible – a minimum of not of homicide – however someone is. Which suggests another person is.

Stuffed with spellbinding menace and informed in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful model, The Flip of the Key is an pause-resisting thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time.