Ruth Ware. Scout, $29.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-9821-5529-2
This too-familiar thriller from Ware (The It Girl) centers on a woman devastated by her husband’s murder and her emergence as the primary suspect. Married couple Jacintha Cross and Gabriel Medway operate Crossways Security, a London firm that stress-
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Ruth Ware. Scout, $28.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-9821-5526-1
This exceptional psychological thriller from Ware (One by One) probes how much one can trust others—and one’s self. Hannah Jones’s Oxford University roommate, April Clarke-Cliveden, is everything Hannah isn’t: wealthy, sophisticated, sexually...
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Ruth Ware. Scout, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5011-8881-7
Set in a remote chalet at an exclusive French Alps resort, this tempestuous locked-room mystery from Ware (The Turn of the Key) centers on the 10-person corporate retreat of social media company Snoop. Snoop’s shareholders—cofounders and ex-lovers...
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Ruth Ware. Scout, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-5011-8877-0
Reviewed by Edwin Hill
Ware’s excellent psychological thriller, as the title suggests, references Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw. It includes a nanny alone, a house that appears to be haunted, and children who aren’t quite what they seem. But...
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Ruth Ware. S&S/Gallery/Scout, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5011-1231-7
At the start of Ware’s solid but somewhat derivative first novel, a psychological thriller, crime writer Leonora Shaw leads a solitary life in London but receives an invitation to Northumberland to celebrate the impending marriage of Clare Cavendish,
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Ruth Ware. Scout, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5011-5621-2
In this tense, twisty modern gothic set in England from bestseller Ware (The Lying Game), Harriet “Hal” Westaway receives a letter stating that her grandmother, Hester Westaway, is dead, and that Hal is a beneficiary of her will. Hal knows there’s...
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Ruth Ware. Scout, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5011-5600-7
When Isa Wilde, the narrator of this engrossing psychological thriller from bestseller Ware (The Woman in Cabin 10), gets a text—“I need you”—from old friend Kate Atagon, she knows she must drop everything in London and go to Salten, a town on...
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Ruth Ware. S&S/Scout, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-1-5011-3293-3
In Ware’s underwhelming sophomore mystery (after 2015’s In a Dark, Dark Wood), Laura “Lo” Blacklock thinks stepping in for her pregnant boss for a week-long jaunt on the new miniature cruise ship Aurora will give her a leg up at Velocity, the...
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Naomi Alderman et al. Morrow, $28.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-313605-2
In this disappointing anthology of authorized pastiches featuring Agatha Christie’s Jane Marple, some contributors fail to play fair with readers by not sharing the clues the elderly amateur sleuth relies on, and almost none of the tales effectively
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Ruth Ware. Scout, $28.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-6680-2559-8
Bestseller Ware (Zero Days) fumbles a promising premise in this clever but slack closed-circle mystery. Biologist Lyla Santiago’s postdoc research on mosquito-borne illnesses hits a wall when inconsistencies in her colleague’s work threaten their...
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