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I am thankful for my advanced copy of The Death of Mrs.Westaway from the publisher via NetGalley. Hal is a young woman who seems to always be down on her luck. The story starts off with Hal, going through her current mail, and seeing all of her bills are pretty much all final notices. Invoice after invoice, Hal realizes that she’s running financially on empty. While she is going through her mail, she finds a hand written letter informing Hal that she is the heir to a somewhat large fortune. This doesn’t seem to make sense to Hal as she lost her mother in a tragic hit and run accident before Hal could finish high school. Her loss put her in emotional turmoil, and swept the only thing that was secure right out from under her feet. The loss of Hal’s mother forced her to have to change, and grow up fast. She takes up her mother’s business to attempt to make ends meet. Provides tarot card readings, and palm readings as she has witnessed her mother do many times over. Hal fi...

Still Water by Amy Stuart I initially picked up the first book of this series before reading Still Water, I picked it up so I could get the entire intended experience of the series. Still Water is the second installment of the Still Series by Amy Stuart. This book begins with Clare on the run again after the ending of her previous case in Blakemore where Shayna Fowls has gone missing. After Shayna Fowls is found in Blackmore alive and well, Malcolm manages to convince Clare to escape most of the media before it ramps up, exposing Clare and her location to her friends and family from her previous life. Clare and Malcolm spend the next few weeks in a motel where Clare can recover from the gunshot wound she received in the Blackmore mines. Once she has mostly recovered Malcolm sends Clare is to the small town of High River with a new identity, and a new mission. In High River, Sally Proulx and her son William have vanished overnight, without a trace. Police have no leads, only an eye w...