She is young and trying to survive but it feels like everything is against her. When her mother died, she was left with no one in the world, and all she wanted was a family. My heart broke for Hal and her situation. What she does not expect is to uncover family secrets that have been buried for decades. Westaway and her mother always told her they had no extended family, but desperate, Hal attends the funeral in the hopes of getting some money to get back onto her feet. She fears for her own life, until she receives a mysterious letter informing her that she has inherited a large sum of money from a woman named Mrs. She has continued in her mother's footsteps and reads tarot for a living, but with the debt that her and her mother borrowed from a very shady source, she will never be able to repay them.
Westaway" follows Hal: a young adult who has recently lost her mother and is in severe financial trouble.
Westaway" at a library book sale, that this would be next up on my Ruth Ware reading list. She must keep going or risk losing everything, even her life.I have slowly been making my way through Ruth Ware's backlist, and I knew when I found this copy of "The Death of Mrs. But once she embarks on her deception, there is no going back. Hal makes a choice that will change her life forever. If anyone has the skills to turn up at a stranger's funeral and claim a bequest they’re not entitled to, it’s her. But Hal knows that the cold-reading techniques she’s honed as a seaside fortune teller could help her con her way to getting the money. The letter has been sent to the wrong person.
There's just one problem - Hal's real grandparents died more than twenty years ago. She owes money to a loan shark and the threats are getting increasingly aggressive: she needs to get her hands on some cash fast. 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. The dark and dramatic psychological thriller by bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10.
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