What I've Been Reading: The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware
My workdays are spent at the office, talking with clients about illness, death and taxes. My evenings and weekends usually allow some downtime for me to indulge my inner bookworm. Recently I took a break from the Nordic Noir series I've been reading and picked up a book recommended by a dear friend, The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware . The book opens with an introduction to Hal, a young women in her early 20s scraping out a living reading tarot cards on a pier in Brighton, England. We learn that her mother, and only family, was killed in a hit and run accident when Hal was barely 18. She is alone, broke, and avoiding a loan shark she now knows was a mistake. And then a letter arrives along with her growing bills. An attorney from Penzance, England wrote, informing her that she is an heir to her late grandmother's estate. An heir? Hal's maternal grandparents were dead, and she had no clue who her father was. And so the myst...