Happy Monday book friends! Thank you so much Doubleday Books for the e-arc of John Grisham’s upcoming release The Widow! It’s out Oct. 21.
Simon Latch is a down on his luck, small town lawyer. He’s in debt, his marriage is on the brink of collapse, and he owes his bookie money. He needs a miracle. Then Eleanor Barnett walks into his office. She’s a wealthy elderly widow who needs a new will. She could be the solution to all Simon’s problems or the reason he loses everything. Here’s the full summary from the publisher:
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.
Simon knows he’s innocent. But he also knows the circumstantial evidence is against him, and he could spend the rest of his life behind bars. To save himself, he must find the real killer….
This is Grisham’s first foray into a whodunnit, but there’s still enough courtroom theatrics to satisfy any legal thriller fan. Simon has to figure out who really killed Eleanor or else he’ll spend the rest of his life behind bars. Grisham does a wonderful job making a morally gray character into a character you root for. Simon got greedy and crossed an ethical line when he wrote Eleanor’s will. But for all Simon’s faults, Grisham is able to make him a sympathetic and likable character. Eleanor is also a complex character and her own motives are shrouded in mystery.
Grisham also serves up lots of twists and red herrings that kept me on my toes. The story moves along at a steady pace that builds tension as Simon goes on trial. Grisham delivers a great clash of legal eagles in the courtroom with a flamboyant defense attorney squaring off against a tough as nails prosecutor. This is an engrossing story that pulls you right in and keeps you guessing to the end. Preorder this one or put it on your tbr list now because you won’t want to miss it.
How do you feel about morally gray main characters? Love them? Hate them? Do you have to like the main character of a book to enjoy it?
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About the Author
John Grisham is the author of more than fifty consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include Framed, Camino Ghosts and The Exchange: After the Firm.
Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.
When he’s not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.
John lives on a farm in central Virginia.
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