While on a luxury cruise for a travel assignment, a journalist witnesses a passenger tossed overboard only to have the ship sail on the next day as if nothing happened.
Ruth Ware
A crime writer wakes up in a hospital forty-eight hours after spending a weekend in an eerie glass house for her distant friend’s bachelor party, stricken with amnesia but armed with the bitter knowledge that someone is dead.
The Tracking Board exclusively reported on the hot novel last month, when several studios were making offers. We now can confirm that New Line won out, with Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea coming on to produce under their Pacific Standard banner.
Centers on reclusive crime writer Lenora Shaw, who reluctantly accepts her distant friend’s invitation to spend the weekend together in an eerie glass house, hidden away in the English countryside.
Written by emerging author Ruth Ware, this breakout hit-in-the-making has already climbed to number eleven on the NY Times Bestseller list after hitting shelves August 4th, via Gallery/Scout Press.
