Warren who might be just as old as the house itself, plus foreboding warnings, and bad weather and circumstances that keep drawing Hal back to the home every time she tries to get away. They are isolated with a cranky housekeeper named Mrs. She channels the spirit of an Agatha Christie novel: estranged members of a wealthy family are recalled to their childhood estate, each with a complicated opinion of their late mother. Westaway is Ruth Ware’s fourth novel and with her newest addition, the author keeps getting better. With her perceptive skills as a tarot reader, Hal packs her bag and hops a train for the Cornish estate with the intent of misleading the Westaway family into believing she is one of their own. However, there is one small thing: Hal’s grandparents died years before and she has no clue who this Mrs. A promise of an inheritance dangled in front of her, Hal feels relieved that some of her money issues might be alleviated. When she’s about to reach her lowest, Hal receives a mysterious letter in the mail from a lawyer representing her grandmother in Cornwall, who has recently passed away. She’s a Brighton Pier tarot card reader who is behind on her rent and owes money to less than reputable men, and then add to her situation the fact that her mother was rundown in a horrific auto accident three years prior. Harriet Westaway, better known as Hal, finds herself down on her luck.
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