51. The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware

read on my iPhone
2018 Gallery/Scout Press
320 pgs.
Genre/Level
Finished  6/10/18
Goodreads rating:  4.01 - 3406 ratings
My rating:  2
Setting:Contemporary Brighton & Cornish coast, seems like "Gothic"...

First line/s:  "The magpies are back.  It's strange to think how much I used to hate them when I first came to the house.  I remember coming up the drive in the taxi from the station, seeing them lined up along the garden wall like that, preening their feathers."

My comments:  Such a disappointment......
          I was certain, as I began reading this book, that I would love it. How wrong I was. I found it boring, slow, and much too easy to figure out.  There was really no mystery, very few surprises, and cookie cutter characters. I’ve read so many great books lately, but this wasn’t one of them. Very disappointing, and it seems that I am among the minority – people are loving this for some reason, I’m not sure why.…

Goodreads synopsis:   From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Lying Game comes Ruth Ware’s highly anticipated fourth novel.
          On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person—but also that the cold-reading skills she’s honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money.
          Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased…where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of it.
          Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, this is an unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time.