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 centre of it.
Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware's signature suspenseful style, this is an unpindownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time.
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[The magpies are back]***Secker, 28 June 2018, ebook, 400 pages, copy from publisher via NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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This is a terrific read. I was gripped from the start and the book dragged me along. The characters are well written. I liked all of them, even Hal's possibly estranged family in the fancy big house. I loved Hal. Most of the book is told from her point of view. She's a great character and I liked being inside her head as she tries to untangle increasingly dark threads of the mess she's gotten herself into. Hal thought it would a simple case of fraud and she could get some money to start a better life. It quickly becomes clear something else, much darker in going on. Hal is a feisty. She could walk away untouched but becomes determine to put all the jigsaw pieces together. The Death of Mrs Westaway is the kind of book that you struggle to stop reading once you've started. I thought it was great.
