Book Blurb:
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.
My Review: 4 stars
The Widow by John Grisham came into my hands at the perfect time as I was on a road trip with my husband and we’ll always agree to listen to Grisham. Like all his books, there were tons of red herrings, good twists, and realistic, three-dimensional characters.
It’d been a while since I listened to one of his books as I usually read them, so this was extra enjoyable. The narrator was spot on with cadence and pitch. I enjoyed the realistic portrayal of small-town lawyers, underpaid significantly from the bigger firms and of course Eleanor Barnett, the woman who hired Simon Latch. There’s nothing better than a who done it and a lawyer who’s trying to clear his own name. Is Simon Latch perfect? No way, yet he’s also the only reasonable suspect. This is a fast paced read and one that most readers of his will enjoy.
I was pleasantly surprised at how the story ended. My husband and I made our final guesses at the three-quarter mark in the audio, and we were both wrong about who the killer was. At least we were both wrong, so he had no opportunity to gloat about it.
Quotes I liked:
The landscapes of our youths create us, and we carry them with us, storied by all they gave and stole, in who we became.”
“…love is a matter, to be nurtured, and even mourned, between two beings alone.”
“Sorrow tried but did not claim me.”
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