![]() ![]() ![]() W left several adult children and grandchildren, who appear pretty affluent. Hal's online research reveals that the departed Mrs. Beset by loan sharks and generally reaching the end of her rope, she is surprised to learn by letter that she is in line for a legacy of an unspecified amount from a grandmother she's never heard of and is pretty sure wasn't hers. Westaway.” The new novel pulls tropes and atmosphere from such 20th-century genre luminaries as Daphne du Maurier, Josephine Tey, Agatha Christie, even early Graham Greene.Īlone in the world at 20, spiky-haired Harriet “Hal” Westaway has taken over her dead mother’s tarot reading booth at Brighton Beach pier. Ruth Ware, the British suspense and thriller writer who may be best known for last year’s popular “The Woman in Cabin 10,” has gone as retro as is possible while staying in a contemporary setting with her latest, “The Death of Mrs. Data: Simon & Schuster, 384 pages, $26.99 ![]()
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