by Ruth Ware
Harriet "Hal" Westaway scrapes a living reading tarot cards on Brighton Pier, alone since her mother's death and hounded by a debt she cannot pay. So when a letter arrives announcing an inheritance from her late grandmother, it feels like salvation, except Hal knows the woman was not her grandmother at all. Desperate enough to gamble, she decides to use her cold-reading skills to bluff her way through the funeral and claim what is on offer. But the crumbling Cornish house of Trepassen, presided over by its sinister housekeeper, holds far darker secrets than Hal bargained for, and the deeper she digs, the more she realises the dead woman's past is tangled with her own in ways she could never have imagined. A chilling, twisty modern gothic from the queen of the slow-burn thriller.
