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The Turn of the Key: the addictive new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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No; it was a big, ugly, antique, but convenient house, embodying a few features of a building still older, half replaced and half utilized, in which I had the fancy of our being almost as lost as a handful of passengers in a great drifting ship. Well, I was, strangely, at the helm! If you’re looking for an explanation of the ending, it’s at the very end of the post (after the spoiler warning)! Plot Summary

The EPCM contractor is responsible for establishing contractual arrangements on behalf of the owner or principal with other contractors, vendors, sub-contractors and sub-vendors, through a tender process. The EPCM contractor is contracted by the owner or principal for the construction management role, while the owner or principal is bound to various contractual relationships for construction related works. From an owner or principal's perspective, there lies a disadvantage in being bound to various contractual relationships in the event of a dispute. Unlike the EPC model, the owner or principal will more often than not find itself involved in a dispute with one or more of the other parties relating to the construction of the project, to whom the EPCM contractor must offer assistance.The Turn of the Key, published in 2019, Rowan Caine is searching for a job. What she finds, instead, is much better: a live-in nanny at the luxurious at Heatherbrae House in the Scottish Highlands. Little does she know that she sets foot on a path that will not only lead to a dead child but also to her imprisonment for murder. Title: I was immediately intrigued by the title of this book and definitely enticed me to read this book.

An eight-year-old girl, the younger of the governess’s two charges. Flora is beautiful and well-mannered, a pleasure to be around. Although the governess loves Flora, she is disturbed that Flora, like Miles, seems strangely impersonal and reticent about herself. Flora is so unusually well-behaved that her first instance of misconduct is disquieting. The governess eventually becomes convinced that Flora sees the ghost of Miss Jessel but keeps these sightings secret. My only real gripe here that I have though is that I don't always feel that she follows through with some aspects to the storyline. Not sure if she knowingly doesn't follow through with some things or if it is part of her signature technique to be a little bit vague. I've noticed this style of writing in almost all of her books and sometimes it has bothered me and others not so much. This one it didn't bother me as much.

It doesn't help that Rowan isn't particularly likable or relatable. She exercises poor judgement over and over. Who would jump into a job that four people had previously vacated in just one year? To a regular person, this would raise red flags and they would proceed with caution, but she didn't even ask any questions. And then as odd things start to happen, she didn't reach out to the parents or another adult. She comes across as very melodramatic and silly, and it's hard to feel for her as she works herself into bad situations. Ruth Ware is the master of writing terrifying novels that readers can’t get enough of. From The Woman in Cabin 10 to The Lying Game and a plethora of other smash hits, she knows what it takes to write a truly captivating book." So far, except for the latest popular novel, in all her previous books, Ruth Ware has created heroines that are thrown into situations that are out of their control. Basically, they stumble into situations while being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Still, the author makes even the worst character somewhat likable. In an interview, she mentioned that she couldn’t write about a character she didn’t like at all. So there are, at least in part, some positive bits and pieces to each protagonist.

The next Girl on the Train…Ware hews [close] to the new genre of twisty-mystery women’s books. (Vulture) I guessed what was happening at almost every turn but still, I wanted to know why it was happening and how it was happening and enjoyed learning those things. What I really liked was the very last letter that was written and the final reveal at the end of the book. Now I look forward to reading more Ruth Ware books. The parents go away the morning after she arrives, leaving her in their modernised Victorian house which has cameras in every room. But the book opens with Rowan in a prison cell, accused of murder. FOUR: okay, I loved it, it freaked me out, gave me enough chills, my all nails are shorter, oh, wait a second, I don’t have nails anymore and my arms are covered with stress bites, my hair is in the air, you made a great job, Ruth Ware, I wanted to clap but my hands are still shaking, stars!!! In The Death of Mrs. Westaway, the writer changed the main idea in that now, the main character walks into a dangerous situation while fully aware, and who has intentions of committing a crime. Hal, the main character, is a tarot reader who doesn’t believe in tarot cards. She is just like the psychics who fake-pretend to be psychics and don’t actually believe in all the supernatural behind it.Just finished this. Regarding whether Rowan/Rachael gets out – I think it is likely that she could, based on the evidence that has just been uncovered… assuming that the papers are given to the police. Among those who have been inspired by The Turn of the Screw is Edward Parnell, the author of Ghostland, a memoir revolving around hauntings and ghost stories and films. “I think much of the enduring appeal of The Turn of the Screw stems from its masterful ambiguity,” he says. “The story can be read in endless ways and James gives us few concrete clues as to how we should make sense of it.

There is an old house located in a remote area in the middle of nowhere in the Scottish Highlands. Rowan becomes a nanny for a family of three children in this creepy estate. The house has a haunted past. Other nannies left and the family has a hard time keeping nannies. The house has everything that you can imagine and Rowan is getting paid very well. It is a smart house with different technology and it has creepy noises in the night. Dark and disturbing events happen in this house. The parents leave Rowan alone with their children in this estate. What Rowan doesn't know is that she is stepping into a nightmare. There are cameras installed in the house and she is having a difficult time and she knows that she has made some mistakes. The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware is told in epistolary format, Rowan is writing to a solicitor, Mr. Wrexham about her very publicized case. She wants him to know she’s innocent and didn’t do it. She is serving a sentence for the murder of one of the children she was nannying for. We eventually learn she nannied for a family of four children in this high-tech smart house. Did not care for the ending. The rest of the story is good but it needed 3-4 more chapters to have proper closure. The Turn of the Key is told only through Rowan’s eyes, as she shares what led to her arrest through a series of letters to a solicitor. Rowan is an unreliable narrator and the reader must contend with a lot of telling. While this type of narrative style usually irks me, I found that it works in this case as Rowan provides a detailed account of her time at Heatherbrae. One just needs to continue to question whether or not her version of events is accurate.A clever and elegant update to James's story… Surveillance and home technology slot easily into the conventions of horror: They bring the sense that your environment is invaded and controlled from afar, and that you are never quite as alone as you might wish… The Turn of the Key, and novels like it, point to a new reality. We are all, constantly, haunted." As the mystery deepens, there are a lot of intriguing elements that get put into the story. Some are fairly typical like creepy attics and disembodied footsteps, but I thought the garden of poisonous plants was a particularly creative touch that I haven’t encountered before, or at least not that I can remember. For example, pressing f1 opens a help window. Alternately, pressing both the fn + f1 keys puts the computer in Sleep mode as printed on the key. One of the girls is trouble for Rowan and the house starts to do weird things. Rowan gets the feeling that the house is haunted because of its dark past. We also question Rowan because we know she’s hiding things about herself. Can Rowan be trusted? Is she really innocent?

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