English author Ruth Ware has been working the female-centered psychological mystery seam to best-selling effect since her chilly 2015 debut “In a Dark, Dark Wood.” Her plots and settings vary from country houses to ocean cruises to ski lodges, but the theme of sins from the past coming back to haunt innocents in the present is always a staple.
Ware’s novels can be hit or miss, usually because of questions of plausibility. A personal favorite is “Turn of the Key” because its shocking twist felt well-earned. On the other hand, her previous novel, “One by One,” a snowbound ski-lodge tribute to Agatha Christie’s “And Then
