The Death of Mrs Westaway

The Death of Mrs Westaway is Ruth Ware's best: a dark and dramatic thriller, part murder mystery, part family drama, altogether riveting.

AJ Finn, Sunday Times bestselling author of THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW

I read it compulsively, trying to undo the knotty puzzles so cleverly constructed by Ware. I really enjoyed the suspenseful atmosphere all the way from the beginning to the satisfying end.

Claire Fuller, author of Our Endless Numbered Days

Ruth Ware gets better and better with each new novel

Sarra Manning, Red Online

Deliciously dark and spooky mystery.

Sunday Mirror

Full of eerie atmosphere and intrigue… the story is deftly told and compelling

The Sun

Ware’s fourth novel reaffirms her position as one of the best thriller writers around today… This cleverly plotted murder mystery-meets-psychological family drama is dark enough to send a shiver down one’s spine even on the hottest summer’s day.

Independent

Ruth Ware does that amazing thing of creating a compellingly gripping premise for a book.

BBC Radio 2 Sara Cox Book Club

If you’re an Agatha Christie fan then you’ll love this eerie new offering from mega-author Ruth Ware… Dark, unsettling and brilliant.

HEAT

A dark tale by one of the best thriller writers around.

Independent

A spooky, atmospheric mystery.

BEST

Few contemporary novelists understand the power of an isolated landscape better than Ruth Ware… her best yet!

METRO, **Books of the Year**

Dark and dramatic, with twists and turns aplenty, it will keep you gripped to the shocking end.

MY WEEKLY

[An] explosive claustrophobic family drama laced with a touch of du Maurier.

Woman & Home

Atmospheric and eerie with Agatha Christie vibes.

Prima

Ruth Ware gets better and better with each new novel.

Red

With secrets, guilt and betrayal, this is worthy of Agatha Christie.

Candis

Ruth Ware has sold the film rights to her previous bestseller, In a Dark, Dark Wood, to Reese Witherspoon, so she is well on her way to thriller-writer royalty. Her latest book is possible even more cinematic

Daily Mail

A gutsy contemporary take on the dangers of confronting the evils of damaged but privileged people

Daily Mail

Ruth Ware’s fourth novel reaffirms her position as one of the best thriller writers around

i

Ware is so brilliant at writing women at their mean, manipulative best – and somehow doing it sympathetically. Gripping

The Pool

Highly atmospheric, with touches of gothic and Daphne du Maurier

Marcel Berlins, The Times

It’s truly a gripping story… full of twists and I delighted in each one

Nicola Smith, Nudge

You cannot stop yourself charging through this story

Jake Kerridge, Sunday Express

‘Powerfully atmospheric, unguessably twisty…I devoured it’ -

Louise Candlish, bestselling author of OUR HOUSE

'I read this in two lightning quick sittings, Hal is the most enthralling anti-heroine and the gothic Cornish setting was riveting. But mainly this was just an incredible story, filled with utterly believable characters and brilliantly told. I absolutely adored it' -

Lisa Jewell, bestselling author of THEN SHE WAS GONE