There she meets several possible uncles and a creepy old housekeeper right out of a Daphne du Maurier novel, all against the backdrop of a run-down mansion. So when she receives a letter saying she's been named in the will of, possibly, an unknown grandmother, she decides to travel to Cornwall, despite fearing that it’s probably all a mistake. Worse still, she’s under threat from a loan shark who’s come to collect the interest on an earlier debt. Her mother died in a hit-and-run several years before, and in her grief, Hal has drifted into a solitary and impecunious life. In Ware’s ( The Lying Game, 2017, etc.) fourth novel in as many years, Harriet “Hal” Westaway is barely making ends meet as a tarot reader on the Brighton Pier. Is it a case of mistaken identity, or will it reveal some truth about her family? A young woman receives notice of a mysterious bequest.
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