The money's not hers and she can't claim it, though a little voice tells her: "you could claim this money, you know. Hal is good at reading people and perceptive enough to understand what it was her mother hadn't said: she's most certainly not a Westaway. At night she returns to the chilly darkness of her attic flat in the Marine View Villas where she thinks about her mother, who died two years previously, the growing stack of bills, and the vicious two typed notes that were recently hand-delivered to her.
Hal has inherited a substantial estate, though she has no connection to Trespassen House, a rambling country estate in Cornwall and the ancestral home of Hester Westaway.īy day, Hal attends to her booth on Brighton's West Pier, where she reads fortunes with tarot cards. The author fills her narrative with Hal's sudden stay of execution in the form of letter from Penzance solicitor Robert Treswick. It's possible to describe Ware's tale while conveying nothing of this story's steady accumulation of dread. J.Book review: Ruth Ware's *The Death of Mrs. 'Ruth Ware's best: a dark and dramatic thriller, part murder mystery, part family drama' A.
She knows that her skills as a seaside fortune teller could help her con her way to getting the money.īut once Hal embarks on her deception, there is no going back. Hal desperately needs the cash and makes a choice that will change her life for ever. There's just one problem - Hal's real grandparents died more than twenty years ago. 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. HAL MUST KEEP GOING OR RISK LOSING EVERYTHING.EVEN HER LIFE.
'I read this in two lightning-quick sittings.I absolutely adored it' Lisa Jewell, bestselling author of The Family Upstairs
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