Chelsea Iversen has been reading and writing stories since before she knew what verbs were. She loves tea and trees and travel and reads her runes at every full moon. Iversen lives in Colorado with her husband, son, and Pepper the dog.
Her new novel is The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt.
At CrimeReads Iversen tagged five "titles that feature powerful, dangerous gardens" for those who "love a little poisonous or unpredictable flora." One title on the list:
The Turn of the Key by Ruth WareRead about another entry on the list.
In this gothic thriller, a nanny struggles to forge a bond with the children in her care, all while inside a highly surveilled estate. The estate is home to a poison garden that, though it’s locked, the children know how to access anyway. The poison garden isn’t the central tenet of this story, but it certainly plays a role in the plot and adds to the creeping sense of foreboding that makes this book rich with suspense.
The Turn of the Key is among Lisa Zhuang's ten spookiest haunted house novels and Jason Rekulak's six creepy novels involving childcare.
--Marshal Zeringue
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