Like James' governess, who's one of literature's most unreliable narrators, Rowan is vague, particularly about her reasons for pursuing this isolated job in the Scottish Highlands. Another thing we readers know from the get-go is that Rowan is not quite leveling with us. She attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

Laura Lippman was a reporter for twenty years. She is thrilled that Lady in the Lake created jobs in her hometown. What do you think inspired a middle age housewife to become an aspiring writer who pursues the murder of a forgotten young woman. It is candid and revealing, but it is not a tell-all. Rowan has been charged with the murder of one of the four children who'd been under her care. Laura Lippman's memoir is a 42-page master class in discretion. We readers know that 27-year-old governess Rowan Caine is a broken woman from the opening of this novel when we meet her in prison. It's a toss-up as to whether the alleged ghosts or those gadgets are responsible for shattering our poor heroine's nerves. The owner of this vehicle, a Chevrolet Corvair 500, reverses the classic sedan to place it in a shot during filming. Lippman’s Lady in the Lake works on so many levels beyond being a truly clever mystery. Ware slyly sets her tale of the haunting of a governess and her difficult young charges in an old mansion that's been renovated into a 'smart house,' complete with a sinister assortment of blinking surveillance cameras and talking refrigerators. Filming of 'Lady in the Lake,' a novel by Laura Lippman continues in Pikesville. Although Lippman couldn’t know that Trump was going to scurrilously denigrate Baltimore the week of the release date, her novel, which takes place in the 1960s, is a relevant response on the city’s behalf. But Ware sets expectations even higher for the novel she's just published by burdening it with a brazen title: The Turn of the Key, evoking Henry James' masterpiece of terror and ambiguity, The Turn of the Screw. Laura Lippman has been awarded every major prize in crime fiction. Westaway is a tough act to follow: It was one of the best mysteries I read in 2018. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Turn of the Key Author Ruth Ware

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