

The first thing I have to say is that I know this is unconventional. I have never written to a barrister before.

I hope that’s the right way to address you. The missive ends abruptly, but on September 4, 2017, the prisoner writes again. The reason I am writing to you is to ask you please You don’t know me, but you may have seen coverage of my case in the newspapers. The second letter contains a clue he or she is writing from HMP aka Her Majesty’s Prison Charnworth. I know you don’t know me but please, please you have to help me. It opens with a series of increasingly fraught letters.

The Turn of the Key plunges the reader into a spiraling mystery. What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare. She wasn’t looking for this sort of job, but when she comes across a live-in nannying post with a staggeringly generous salary, she can’t help but answer the ad. The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware introduces Rowan Caine.
