An atmospheric but not quite cozy mystery set in Brighton and Cornwall. Hal (Harriet) Westaway is 21 and all alone in the world since the accidental death of her mother 3 years earlier. She barely scrapes by as a Tarot reader on the Brighton pier, if 'scraping by' describes receiving late-night visits from terrifying loan shark enforcers. When a letter arrives from a solicitor, telling her she's been named in the will of a Mrs. Westaway she's never heard of, Hal's situation is so dire that she persuades herself that it's worth the trip to Penzance to investigate. There she finds a tumbling-down estate by the sea, a nasty housekeeper, and three bitterly angry men, brothers, who have a stake in the estate.
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