And we will come back.”īut wait, luck just dealt Hal a hand of fortune when she receives a letter stating she’s one of the beneficiaries of Hester Mary Westaway’s, of Trepassen House, estate. Hal is down on her luck, although she holds the fortune of many of her customers in her hands as a Tarot Card Reader, she’s broke, can’t pay the rent or utilities and a loan shark is breathing down her neck with dangerous threats she can’t escape. Ware’s writing deposits the reader into the protagonist’s, Harriet (Hal) Westaway, angst-ridden mind from the beginning and keeps building interest to the very end. I love a Psychological Thriller that deals with the mystic―fortune-telling and tarot cards. Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased…where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of it.įull of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, this is an unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person-but also that the cold-reading skills she’s honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money. On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance.
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