Ruth Ware‘s dark and dramatic thriller The Death of Mrs Westaway has featured in a CrimeReads list of “8 Brooding Gothic Mysteries Set On the British Isles”.

In the article, which you can read here, Dawn Kurtagich writes of The Death of Mrs Westaway:

“Hal is a tarot reader who works on the Brighton pier, suffering through the slow winter season by degrees. This has been her lonely life since the death of her mother a few years before the opening of the book. Hal has no one else in her life, no one to rely on. So, when she receives a letter out of the blue bequeathing her a large inheritance from an unknown grandmother–and that she is a member of a larger family she has never met, she is sure they have the wrong girl. Still, desperation and curiosity get the better of her (we can’t blame her, it would compel anyone), and she finds herself traveling down the English coast to Cornwall to try and fool the unsuspecting family into believing that she really is one of them (okay, maybe we can give her a little side-eye here).

Once housed in the family estate however, it soon becomes clear that this family has issues, and that she is, in fact, part of the twisted mess. It also looks like someone in the house is determined to keep the family secret, well, secret. Honestly? The moody Brighton setting at the opening of the novel was enough to get me invested, but Ruth Ware so deftly kept me here with the way she doled out the reveals; I didn’t want to leave these pages. Bonus points if you listen to the audiobook while you read—Imogen Church does an incredible job narrating.”

The Death of Mrs Westaway is out now. Grab your UK copy here now or, better, via your local bookshop or Bookshop.org. In the US, find it here or on Bookshop.org.

Already read it? Ruth’s latest thriller, One Perfect Couple, is out now. Grab your US copy here and your UK copy here or, better, via your local bookshop or Bookshop.org.

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