Another crime, another missing child, this time a thriller being compared to The Girl on The Train. Here's the scoop, The Widow is bloody weird. Literally the character of The Widow, Jean Taylor, i found to be more unsettling than that of her dead husband who was accused of the kidnap and murder of a young child.
Throughout Jeans narrative we discover she is a woman who was easily manipulated by her creepy and insidious husband and as a persistent reporter pushes into Jeans life, literally, she finds herself again being manipulated, however as more and more of Jeans story is revealed and we discover just how much she knew about what her late husband was up to, we realize that Jean is not the naive pushover she has painted herself to be.
It is a carefully crafted novel, focused on a harrowing case and told by a protagonist you never quite understand with excepts from the police officers involved and the reporter desperate to cover the story.
It also explores some serious questions about how the media is handled in these kinds of real life cases, the desperate and devastated mother who becomes the newspapers golden girl, the mistakes made by the parents which the media glosses over and the difficulty in solving a crime and handling a case with the impact of social media.
4 out of 5 for me, dark, chilling and misleading.
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