The Elincourt’s generous offer (£55,000 a year for a live-in nanny with all daily expenses covered) helps Rowan overlook aspects of the Elincourt’s home like the doors that don’t have locks, cameras placed in every room, technology trickled into every aspect of their life. Rowan explains how she came to respond to a news advert and to interview with the Sandra Elincourt in the Elincourt’s Scottish highland estate. We don’t know what the crime is, but it is linked to the Heatherbrae House where she once was a nanny for the Elincourt family.

We quickly learn that Rowan has been imprisoned for a crime. Her newest novel, The Turn of the Key, opens with a letter from our protagonist, Rowan Caine, to a solicitor (lawyer) called Mr. I had heard of Ruth Ware’s 2016 release The Women in Cabin 13, but I haven’t read it yet. I quickly came across The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware and narrated by Imogen Church. Why am I sharing this? Well, at work one day I wanted to force myself to focus through adrenaline and went on the hunt for a thriller to listen to. I’ve also started grad school recently, and I’ve felt very sleep deprived even if it is only two weeks into the program. From Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs to Dwayne Alexander Smith’s 40 acres to Riley Sager’s Final Girls, I’ve tried an exponential number of mysteries/thrillers compared to years prior.

If you’ve been following me on my BookTube channel, you’ll know that 2019 has been the year where I’ve discovered my love of mystery/thrillers. I wouldn’t entirely blame you, but please – before you do that, hear me out. If I tell you my name, I have a horrible feeling you might write me off as a lost cause, and throw my letter away. My case has been all over the papers, my name in every headline, my agonised face staring out of every front page and every single article insinuating my guilt in a way that falls only just short of contempt of court. My name is… And here I stop, wanting to tear up the page again.īecause if I tell you my name, you will know why I am writing to you. However long it takes, however much I mess this up, I’m just going to keep going, and tell the truth.

So I’m just going to have to do my best to set things out. There is no way I can make you listen to my case. Dear Mr Wrexham, You have no idea how many times I’ve started this letter and screwed up the resulting mess, but I’ve realised there is no magic formula here.

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