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The Widow: A Novel

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John Grisham・・Ended

Updated: October 21, 2025

Content length: 416 pages

language: English

Source: amazon

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#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham is the acclaimed master of the legal thriller. Now, he’s back with his first-ever whodunit, even more suspenseful than his courtroom dramas, as a small-time lawyer accused of murder races to find the real killer to clear his name. “A classic, compulsive, taut and thrilling novel from one of the great storytellers of our time. The Widow is John Grisham at his irresistible, unforgettable best.”—Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colors of the Dark Simon Latch is a lawyer in rural Virginia, making just enough to pay his bills while his marriage slowly falls apart. Then into his office walks Eleanor Barnett, an elderly widow in need of a new will. Apparently, her husband left her a small fortune, and no one knows about it. Once he hooks the richest client of his career, Simon works quietly to keep her wealth under the radar. But soon her story begins to crack. When she is hospitalized after a car accident, Simon realizes that nothing is as it seems, and he finds himself on trial for a crime he swears he didn’t commit: murder.

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📚 Why We Recommend It

John 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.