Happy Tuesday!
Today I am linking up with Socrates’ Book Reviews who hosts a meme every Tuesday to share the First Chapter/First Paragraph or two of the book you are currently reading.
First Chapter/First Paragraph
7th September 2017
HMP Charnworth
Dear Mr. Wrexham,
You have no idea how many times I’ve started this letter and screwed up the resulting mess, but I’ve realized there is no magic formula here. There is no way I can make you listen to my case. So I’m just going to have to do my best to set things out. However long it takes, however much I mess this up, I’m just going to keep going and tell the truth.
My name is … And here I stop, wanting to tear up the page again.
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
Goodreads Synopsis
When she stumbles across the 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.
Genre: Mystery
Series: None
Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press
Publication Date: 8/6/2019
Pages: 337
Does this entice you to want to read the book?
I would love to read your First Chapter/First Paragraph if you would like to link it in the comments below!
I just received this book last week, and the enticing first lines reeled me in. Thanks for sharing…and here are my excerpts for today: “THE LAST HOUSE GUEST”
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Brings back good memories! Enjoy💜
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I did read and enjoy this book. Hope you love the whole thing. Now I am looking to get my hands on her new book One By One.
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I loved this one!! Everything about this and the ending…I actually loved it. I hope you enjoy this one!!!
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Oh I have this one out of the library, I can’t wait to start it!
(www.evelynreads.com)
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I really want to read that book! x
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Ruth Ware has been a bit of a hit and miss author for me. Will most probably read it at some point though.
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I’ve seen this book around and it really looks good. Another book for my wishlist.
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