Thursday, November 29, 2018

The Death of Mrs. Westaway / Ruth Ware / 368 pages

This is Ruth Ware's fourth novel.  I have read her previous three books and this one seemed more intricate, developed and challenging.  I enjoyed reading it more.  Harriet Westaway is a young woman struggling to support herself after the sudden death of her mother.  She has never known her father.  She receives a letter from a lawyer informing her that she has been given a substantial inheritance from her grandmother, her mother's mother, who has just passed away.  Harriet was told that her grandparents passed away over 20 years ago, so this does not make sense to her.  However, she is in dire need of money so she travels to the English countryside where her "grandmother"'s estate is and attends the funeral.  The lawyer meets her there and introduces her to her three uncles.  While staying in the family home she slowly pieces together and solves the mystery of her inheritance.

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