“She found herself gasping for breath, a kind of slow drowning, and then she could not speak any longer, only shake her head- but not in disbelief.
The use of twins, of cousins with the same name, odd nicknames, disappearances… these are tricks the seasoned mystery/thriller fan has seen before and will see right through in this novel. While the mystery itself may be unique and disturbing, many of the clues are completely transparent. The plot points are so predictable and easy to untangle that I wasn’t reading for answers, I was reading to prove my guesses right. The mystery was the biggest problem with this book for me– I was one step ahead of Hal at every turn. There seems to be a trend lately of thriller-writers going the way of the slower-paced mystery instead– and that’s fine, but it can affect the way a book is read. The story of Hal’s family history is a slowly unraveling thread that doesn’t pose a lot of danger to her until the very end, and even then the reader can be fairly sure about how things will turn out. But it would not work again.”įirst, I would say it’s important to approach this book as a mystery rather than a thriller. Someone had tried to scare her away once, and it had almost worked. But deep down, in the core of herself, the secret predatory self that she kept hidden and locked away, Hal knew. “She should have been afraid, and part of her was. When Hal’s inheritance turns out to be something she wasn’t expecting, she must delve into the mystery of who the estate was supposed to be left to– and whether Hal shares a dark connection with these Westaways after all. Westaway cannot be her grandmother, to attend the funeral and reading of the will. Westaway’s estate stating that Hal’s grandmother has died and left her an inheritance, Hal overlooks the fact that this Mrs. So when she receives a letter from the lawyer in charge of Mrs. Money’s always been tight, but it’s gotten worse since her mother’s sudden death a few years back. It’s the off-season on the Brighton pier, where she works as a tarot card reader in her mother’s old booth.
The bills are piling up, and the loan shark she went to for help is calling in the debt Hal owes.
Westaway, and it disappointed me.Ībout the book: Harriet (Hal) Westaway is down on her luck, to say the least. I just read Ware’s brand new release, The Death of Mrs.
There were some predictable plot elements, and there was a lot about The Lying Game I didn’t like, but the one constant is that I’ve always loved Ware’s writing. I felt the same about A Woman in Cabin 10- the rising sense of anxiety and sleeplessness sucked me in completely. I was hooked on the creepy atmosphere, the footprints in the snow, the lost phone, the noises in the sleeping house. A brief history: I read Ruth Ware’s debut thriller, In a Dark, Dark Wood, back in 2016 and loved it.
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