To her surprise, Rowan, who has been working at a daycare center in London, is invited for an interview. Wrexham that it starts with her application for a well-paying nanny position at Heatherbrae House in the Scottish Highlands. She then recounts how she came to be in her current circumstances, explaining to Mr. Rowan begins by maintaining her innocence in the death of one of the children in her care, insisting that she did not kill the girl. The Turn of the Key is primarily told through the voice of Rowan Caine in a letter she is writing from prison to a lawyer named Mr. Some of Ware’s books have won, or been nominated for, major book awards, and three have been optioned for the screen. Other thrillers by Ware include In a Dark, Dark Wood (2015), The Lying Game (2017), The Death of Mrs. It was a New York Times bestseller, a Sunday Times bestseller, and named Thriller of the Month by Waterstones. The book joined several others penned by Ware as both a critical and commercial success. She apologizes for crying and leaving tear stains on the letter, but she tells Mr.The Turn of the Key is a crime thriller published in 2019 by international best-selling author Judith Ware.

She explains that he would not let her speak, nor would he listen to her, making her look “much more guilty” (7) in the process. Gates, is supposed to choose the trial advocate, she does not trust him and blames him for her current situation. Although she knows her appointed solicitor, Mr. Her main purpose in writing the letter is to ask Mr. She explains that she’s awaiting trial in Scotland and insists that she’s innocent. Wrexham might ignore her if he knows who she is. Wrexham, that she prefers not to give away her identity because she’s been in the papers for a high-profile murder in which her guilt has been presumed.

In the first, Rowan explains to the letter recipient, Mr. The first letter is dated September 7, 2017, and comes after five attempts to write the letter over the four preceding days. Each chapter is part of a long letter written in the first-person by the main character Rowan Caine-whose name is not revealed until Chapter 4.

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