Psychological thriller

The Turn of the Key

by Ruth Ware

Rowan Caine accepts a remarkably well-paid live-in nanny position with a wealthy family in a remote Scottish home filled with smart technology. Her account begins from prison, where she is writing to a solicitor after one of the children in her care has died and insisting that she is not guilty. Reconstructing the weeks before the death reveals absent parents, unsettling noises, hostile behavior, and a house whose automated conveniences increasingly feel like surveillance. Modern Gothic suspense and an isolated, rain-dark setting make this a tense late-night choice for readers who enjoy unreliable narrators and domestic secrets.