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"Following the twists and turns of an unimaginable crime, The Widow is an electrifying debut thriller that will take you into the dark spaces that exist between a husband and a wife. When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on when more bad things began to happen. . . But that woman's husband died last week. And Jean doesn't have to be her anymore. There's a lot Jean hasn't said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was too busy being the perfect wife, standing by her man while living with the accusing glares and the anonymous harassment. Now there's no reason to stay quiet. There are people who want to hear her story. They want to know what it was like living with that man. She can tell them that there were secrets. There always are in a marriage. The truth--that's all anyone wants. But the one lesson Jean has learned in the last few years is that she can make people believe anything. . ."--
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The Widow is a painfully slow-paced mystery about an abducted child and the search for her and her kidnapper. Chapters flit from the present to the past as investigators put the case together. The “widow” (Jean) is the wife of the main suspect and it is she and the head detective whose voices tell most of the story. Jean and her husband (Glen) were totally unsympathetic characters who enabled each other in their separate dysfunctions. For the lead detective (Sparkes), this is the case he couldn't let go of yet it was years before he could close the case. I could have gone from the first few chapters to the last third of the book. I felt that Jean needed to be more deeply developed as she obviously had two distinct personalities. I think if she had drawn this character out more the novel would have had more of an impact. So, I did not find the book compelling and I was not satisfied with the ending.