There is also a narrator who sticks with journalist Kate Waters, who wins enough of Jean’s confidence to get an interview that slots some of the puzzle pieces into place. One is Jean, the eponymous widow and not always as truthful or insightful as she might be because she has had a vested interest in protecting her husband - and indeed herself. The collaborators on solving this puzzle are the narrators who tell the tale - or rather, their tales. As a reader, your job is to put the pieces together: to figure out how he did it and why, and how much his wife Jean knew or guessed during the months of police investigation and the years in which suspicion swirled around him. From the get-go you know how the final picture looks: in this case, you soon realize that Glen Taylor is the villain who abducted two-year old Bella Elliott. “The Widow” arrives from England recommended as “twisty psychological suspense” and “an electrifying debut thriller.” It’s not either of these.
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