

The Letters She Left Behind by Ruth Ware is available at these sites. Then, there were other times where tensions were tight and my nerves were frayed. The story had a lot of down time where you didn’t feel like a murderer was after the main character, but there were questions to answer. Westaway for readers that enjoy thrillers mixed with mystery. The story was captivating and had a multiple mysteries along the way that kept me guessing at each page turn. I wasn’t sure where the book was going or why things were happening and I really enjoyed that. The Plot: I really didn’t figure out what was happening in this story until the end. I found it to be an excellent addition to the story. I longed for her to find a way to set her life straight, and I really enjoyed her Tarot card reading. I felt for her at the loss of her mother, even though it had not happened recently. This Study Guide consists of approximately 62 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Death of Mrs. The Characters: Hal, the main character was easy to like. The way this book was written, I was so worried for Hal and what was going to happen. Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Wares signature suspenseful style, this is an unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time. The Writing: Ruth Ware’s writing is engrossing! She tells this story with a first person perspective and I found that I was really connected to the main character, Hal. I am totally on the Ruth Ware bandwagon now! The plotting is not completely seamless, but that is more than made up for by a clever heroine and an atmospheric setting, accented by wisps of meaning that drift from the tarot cards.This is my second Ruth Ware book, and I really enjoyed it. The labyrinth Ware has devised here is much more winding than expected, with reveals even on the final pages. Her clues tease readers, making them think they know what will happen next, and they do-up to a point. Ware, who, with a run of acclaimed thrillers, including The Lying Game(2017), has established herself as one of today’s most popular suspense writers, twists the knife quite expertly here. Finding the truth, however, turns into a very dangerous enterprise indeed. Yet once at Trepassen House, things take an odd turn a photograph shows she does have connections to the family.

So when a letter arrives on creamy stationery from a lawyer in Penzance saying she’s an heir to her grandmother’s fortune, Hal goes to claim it, even though she knows he has the wrong person.

Now interest on the money from a loan shark has grown to an impossible amount, and he’s threatening to break her bones.

She’s dropped out of school and taken over her mother’s tarot booth on Brighton Pier, but there was never much to be made from that. Hal hasn’t had it easy in the three years since her mother died.
