The Widow: A Novel
📚 Why We Recommend ItJohn Grisham’s latest marries a true whodunit engine to the courtroom drama he perfected: when small-town Virginia lawyer Simon Latch takes on the seemingly routine task of updating eighty-five-year-old Eleanor Barnett’s will, he stumbles into a labyrinth of hidden wealth and family resentments that soon erupts into murder, and, with the clock ticking toward trial, he must unmask the real killer to clear his own name; the premise is irresistible because the protagonist is both advocate and accused, the pacing moves from quiet consultations to high-stakes depositions and cross-examinations, and the craft shows in the legal nuance and lived-in characters that reviewers are already praising, while the publisher notes this is Grisham’s first overt foray into a classic whodunit.
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