But after a somewhat disappointing encounter with her first novel, In A Dark Dark Wood (I found the heroine supremely irritating and put it down about a third of the way in), I’ve not picked up another of her books despite the many favourable reviews from fellow readers that indicate she’s a writer who has only developed her novelistic prowess since then. Hailed as a modern day Agatha Christie, she writes the sort of twisty, plot driven crime novels that I ordinarily enjoy. Ruth Ware is one of those writers I’ve always wanted to like. She must keep going or risk losing everything, even her life… But once she embarks on her deception, there is no going back. Hal makes a choice that will change her life for ever. 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.
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