She is taken to the huge, cold and gloomy Trepassen house- a place that holds a thousand secrets within its walls. Hal travels down to the English coast and meets her "family". So when she receives a letter bequeathing a large inheritance to her, she decides to accept, even though she knows it must be a mistake. This has been her life since the death of her mother a few years earlier. Westaway, Hal reads tarot cards on Brighton pier and struggles daily to pay the bills and find food to keep her going. What's not to love about old dark secrets, even older darker houses, and mysterious family legacies? And I loved it! Such a delicious, hard-to-put-down mystery. Okay, I'm joking, but that dirty wench spoiled most of the endings to the others so I have had to bag an arc to be able to read this spoiler-free. My sister is a huge Ruth Ware fan so I, of course, in true sibling fashion, had to decide I hated her on principal and avoid all her previous books. I'm really glad I finally broke down and read a Ruth Ware book.
They were long, thick bolts, top and bottom. Is Hal playing the Westaways, or is she somebody's pawn? Evocative prose, artfully shaded characters, and a creepy, claustrophobic atmosphere keep the pages of this explosive family drama turning.There was a lock on the door. Moreover, she begins to suspect that her invitation was no accident. But when she arrives at the crumbling family estate in Cornwall, neither the inheritance nor the Westaways are what she expects.
Hal knows there's been a mistake her grandmother was named Marion Westaway and died two decades earlier but the 21-year-old orphan owes a lot of money to some dangerous people, feels comfortable stealing a small sum from wealthy strangers, and decides to use the skills she's honed as a fortune teller on Brighton's West Pier to scam some quick cash.
In this tense, twisty modern gothic set in England from bestseller Ware (The Lying Game), Harriet "Hal" Westaway receives a letter stating that her grandmother, Hester Westaway, is dead, and that Hal is a beneficiary of her will.
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