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The Widow

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The Widow

By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Michael Beck
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 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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.

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….

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“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. No one does it better.”—Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark

“A captivating legal whodunit . . . [Grisham’s] nuanced portrait of Latch demonstrates his gift for constructing morally flawed yet sympathetic characters. The author’s fans will be galvanized by this impressive return to form.”—Publishers Weekly
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The story starts out very slowly. Until almost half of the book readers must ask themselves where this is going. The trial is more than unconvincing, how could anyone be convicted on such slim evidence? I had a hard time to suspend disbelief. The denouement is not bad but still unconvincing after the first 3/4 of the story. It sounds forced.
On the whole, not the best Grisham.
Michael Beck´s performance, however, is a real pleasure, as always.

Is this a real Grisham?

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Another really good story from the king of legal thrillers. Not a genuine whodunnit, however, but rather more of the same. A page-turner nonetheless.

Another one bites the dust

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Could not get past the accent of the narrator and the exaggerated tones he used for female characters. Lost my patience after 1 hour.

Over powering accent of narrator

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