Bøker av Ruth Ware

Mr. and Mrs. Smith meets The Fugitive in this propulsive thriller about a woman in a race against time to clear her name and find her husband’s murderer.

The text message arrives in the small hours of the night. It's just three words: I need you. Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her.

Nora hasn't seen Clare for ten years. Not since the day Nora walked out of her old life and never looked back. Until, out of the blue, an invitation to Clare's hen party arrives. A weekend in a remote cottage - the perfect opportunity for Nora to reconnect with her best friend, to put the past behind her. But something goes wrong. Very wrong.

This instant New York Times bestseller and “claustrophobic spine-tingler” (People) from Ruth Ware follows a group of employees trapped on a snow-covered mountain.Getting snowed in at a luxurious, rustic ski chalet high in the French Alps doesn’t sound like the worst problem in the world. Especially when there’s a breathtaking vista, a full-service chef and housekeeper, a cozy fire to keep you warm, and others to keep you company. Unless that company happens to be eight coworkers…each with something to gain, something to lose, and something to hide. When the cofounder of Snoop, a trendy London-based tech start-up, organizes a weeklong trip for the team in the French Alps, it starts out as a corporate retreat like any other: presentations and strategy sessions broken up by mandatory bonding on the slopes. But as soon as one shareholder upends the agenda by pushing a lucrative but contentious buyout offer, tensions simmer and loyalties are tested. The storm brewing inside the chalet is no match for the one outside, however, and a devastating avalanche leaves the group cut off from all access to the outside world. Even worse, one Snooper hadn’t made it back from the slopes when the avalanche hit. As each hour passes without any sign of rescue, panic mounts, the chalet grows colder, and the group dwindles further…one by one.

"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Lying Game comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fourth novel. On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person--but also that the cold-reading skills she's honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money. Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased...where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of it. Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware's signature suspenseful style, this is an unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time"--

Originally published: Great Britain: Vintage, 2017.

"What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware's suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller. Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her "nest" of an apartment unless it is absolutely necessary. When a friend she hasn't seen or spoken to in years unexpectedly invites Nora (Lee?) to a weekend away in an eerie glass house deep in the English countryside, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip. Forty-eight hours later, she wakes up in a hospital bed injured but alive, with the knowledge that someone is dead. Wondering not "what happened?" but "what have I done?," Nora (Lee?) tries to piece together the events of the past weekend. Working to uncover secrets, reveal motives, and find answers, Nora (Lee?) must revisit parts of herself that she would much rather leave buried where they belong: in the past. In the tradition of Paula Hawkins's instant New York Times bestseller The Girl On the Train and S. J. Watson's riveting national sensation Before I Go To Sleep, this gripping literary debut from UK novelist Ruth Ware will leave you on the edge of your seat through the very last page"--

En etter en forsvinner kollegaene fra hytta. Å snø inne på en luksuriøs hytte i de sveitsiske alpene høres ikke så ille ut. Spesielt ikke når man har en fantastisk utsikt, kokk, stuepike, koselig peis og godt selskap. Med mindre selskapet består av dine åtte kollegaer - hver med noe å vinne, noe å tape og noe å skjule. Da en av medeierne i Snoop, et trendy London-basert IT-selskap, organiserer en langhelg for sine ansatte, starter samlingen med teambuilding og skiturer i bakken. Men da en av medeierne fremmer forslag om å selge firmaet, begynner det å bli dårlig stemning i gruppen, og alles lojalitet blir satt på prøve. Det bygger opp til storm, og et snøskred gjør at gruppen blir isolert fra omverdenen uten tilgang til kommunikasjon. Og det verste er at en av kollegaene ikke klarte å komme tilbake til hytta før snøskredet gikk. For hver time som går, uten redning utenfra, vokser panikken. Hytta blir kaldere og kaldere, og en etter en forsvinner kollegaene sporløst.

Jeg vet du ikke kjenner meg, men du må hjelpe meg. Jeg har ikke drept noen. «Barnepasser søkes til familie med fire barn. Vi bor i et moderne hus i Det skotske høylandet. Sertifikat nødvendig. God lønn og eget rom med bad.» Da Rowan kommer over den perfekte jobben, må hun bare søke. Til hennes store glede får hun stillingen, og hun blir ikke skuffet da hun ankommer. Det er et luksuriøst hjem, et smarthus med alle moderne fasiliteter, som ligger vakkert til i det nydelige skotske høylandet. Familien er vennlig og sjarmerende, men stedet er øde og isolert. Ett av barna dør, og Rowan blir anklaget for drap. Hun innser at hun har havnet i sitt livs mareritt.

De lovet å være ærlige mot hverandre, men en av dem lyverTekstmeldingen kommer midt på natten. Det er bare tre små ord: Jeg trenger deg. Isa dropper alt, tar med seg sin lille datter og drar straks til Salten. Her gikk hun på kostskole sammen med sine tre beste venninner. Venninnene pleide å spille noe de kalte «lyvespillet». De konkurrerte om å fortelle usanne historier til skolekameratene, og hvis de ble trodd, fikk de poeng. Det var bare en regel: De skulle aldri lyve til hverandre. Nå, sytten år med hemmeligheter senere, har det blitt funnet noe grusomt på stranden. Noe som får alle fire til å dra tilbake og konfrontere sin fortid. Det blir ingen hyggelig gjenforening, det er på tide å fortelle den sanne historien. Ruth Ware har tidligere skrevet bestselgerne I en mørk, mørk skog og Kvinnen i lugar 10. De fire løgnerne er hennes tredje bok.

A brand new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Crime's legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF IN A DARK, DARK WOOD Featured in TheSkimm An Entertainment Weekly Summer Must List Pick A New York Post Summer Must-Read Pick Included in Summer Book Guides from Bustle, Oprah.com, PureWow, and USA TODAY From New York Times bestselling author of the twisty-mystery (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful and haunting novel from Ruth Warethis time, set at sea.In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christies works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first, Los stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted forand so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Los desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrong With surprising twists, spine-tingling turns, and a setting that proves as uncomfortably claustrophobic as it is eerily beautiful, Ruth Ware offers up another taut and intense read in The Woman in Cabin 10one that will leave even the most sure-footed reader restlessly uneasy long after the last page is turned.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Powerfully atmospheric, unguessably twisty I devoured it LOUISE CANDLISH, bestselling author of OUR HOUSEThe Death of Mrs Westaway is Ruth Ware's best: a dark and dramatic thriller, part murder mystery, part family drama, altogether riveting' A. J. FINN, bestselling author of THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW'If you re an Agatha Christie fan then you ll love this eerie new offering from mega-author Ruth Ware Dark, unsettling and brilliant.' HEAT'[An] explosive claustrophobic family drama laced with a touch of du Maurier.' WOMAN & HOME When Harriet Westaway receives an unexpected letter telling her she s inherited a substantial bequest from her Cornish grandmother, it seems like the answer to her prayers. There's just one problem Hal's real grandparents died more than twenty years ago. Hal desperately needs the cash and makes a choice that will change her life for ever. She knows that her skills as a seaside fortune teller could help her con her way to getting the money. But once Hal embarks on her deception, there is no going back. She must keep going or risk losing everything, even her life The brand new psychological thriller from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10.

THE SUNDAY TIMES & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of Richard and Judy pick In A Dark, Dark Wood comes Ruth Ware's new compulsive page-turner.