This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life in Books.I thought this book was really well done. I have had this book for several years but never got around to reading for one reason or another. When I noticed that a copy of the audiobook was available and it featured a large cast of narrato...
A thoroughly engaging mystery/thriller concerning a missing little girl, the prime suspect who suddenly dies in an accident, and the one person who may hold the key to what truly happened...the suspect's widow.Expertly weaving between the past and the present, through the viewpoints of the grieving ...
***Possible spoilers ahead. You’ve been warned*** For just one split second I almost thought Bella was alive somewhere because a part of me was hoping she was. Nope. What it was, instead was Jeanie’s poor tormented mind and the result of being emotionally manipulated by Glen all this time. You ...
3.5 starsThis is a story about the case of a missing little girl. It's told in segments from different characters points of view, but mostly it's about a woman who's recently widowed. Some parts go back to the past and some are current as the story progresses. It takes awhile before the reader is...
I was extremely disappointed in this book. I was really looking forward to this read as there has been so much hype surrounding it. I've heard it referred to as the next "Gone Girl " comparing Fiona Barton to Gillian Flynn to which I was skeptical , those are big shoes to fill and GG was one of my f...
Jean Taylor has just lost her husband Glen. Rather than being able to mourn she is soon inundated with press knocking at her door. For years earlier Glen was implicated in the disappearance of a 2 year old girl, Bella, who has never been found. The press believe that Jean really knows what went on. ...
In her debut novel Fiona Barton asks the questions of how well do we really know our spouse: It is a parent's worst nightmare their child being snatched from the front yard without a trace and no suspect, but someone has to have little Bella or know where she is. It's a wife's worst nightmare when ...
“The Widow is a fast paced, steadily moving mystery which held my attention so completely that I read it in one day. It has been compared to “Gone Girl”, among other mysteries, but I thought it was unique unto itself. The content of books like “Gone Girl” is sometimes almost too difficult to read in...
The premise of The Widow is both ambitious and brave. It's an attempt to get inside the mind of the the wife of a man suspected of abducting and murdering a two year old girl. Narrated from the point of view of the wife in question, now a widow, the detective investigating the girl's disappearance...
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