The Turn of the Key

When she stumbles across the

ISBN 1501188771
(ISBN13: 9781501188770)

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.

337 pages

Published August 6th 2019

(Gallery/Scout Press)

First Impression

In the beginning the turn of the Key comes across as a letter to a solicitor trying to employ his services to prove her innocence.

It also highlights the plot of behind the story.

My Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐

As April's Book of the Month (Waterstones), The Turn of the Key is one of the most emotional, surprising story I have read so far...there were shocking twists and the ending brought a tear to my eye I wasn't expecting the ending.

Quotes

“Better to achieve perfect marks on an easy test than flunk a hard one, that was my motto.”