The Widow : A Novel
What Is This Book About?
A tightly wound, compulsively readable thriller from a master of the genre — The Widow showcases John Grisham doing what he does better than almost anyone.
Simon Latch is a small-town Virginia attorney barely keeping his head above water, professionally and personally. His practice scrapes by, and his marriage is quietly unraveling. So when Eleanor Barnett, a soft-spoken elderly widow, walks through his door looking for help with her will, Simon pays attention — especially when it becomes clear her late husband left behind a quietly enormous fortune that nobody else seems to know about.
Simon sees his way out. He takes her on as a client and does everything he can to keep her wealth off the radar. But the more he digs in, the more her story stops adding up. When Eleanor ends up hospitalized after a car accident, the carefully arranged pieces of her life begin to fall apart — and Simon finds himself accused of something he never saw coming: murder.
He knows he didn’t do it. The problem is, the evidence doesn’t much care what he knows. With a circumstantial case stacking up against him and the real possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison, Simon has only one way out — find whoever actually did it, before the jury decides he did.