With a loan shark and his cronies beating on her door and physically threatening her, Hal is struggling to eke out a living at the tarot-reading booth she took over from her mother on Brighton’s West Pier.īut on a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a glimmer of hope in the form of a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. Twenty-one-year-old Hal has been down on her luck since her mother’s death two years ago.

We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. Westaway includes an introduction, discussion questions, ideas for enhancing your book club, and a Q&A with author Ruth Ware. Told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, this is an unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time.įind The Death of Mrs Westaway at Amazon.This readers group guide for The Death of Mrs. 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 is at the center of it. 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.

I really enjoyed the suspenseful atmosphere all the way from the beginning to the satisfying end.” Claire Fuller, author of Our Endless Numbered Daysįrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Lying Game comes Ruth Ware’s highly anticipated fourth novel. “‘I read it compulsively, trying to undo the knotty puzzles so cleverly constructed by Ware. More, please, and soon.” AJ Finn, author of The Woman in the Window And The Death of Mrs Westaway, her latest, is also her best: a dark and dramatic thriller, part murder mystery, part family drama, altogether riveting. Her novels - suspenseful, sophisticated, relentlessly compelling - blow the dust off half a dozen crime genres, from Golden Age whodunits to psychological suspense.

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