# The Widow

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- Book: [The Widow](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-grisham/the-widow) ([The Widow.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-grisham/the-widow.md))
- Authors: [John Grisham](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-grisham)
- Publisher: hodder_stoughton
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-13-9970-342-0
- Published: 2025-10-21
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

'A classic, compulsive, taut and thrilling novel from one of the great storytellers of our time. No one does it better' CHRIS WHITAKER SHE NEEDS A LAWYER. HE NEEDS A PAYDAY. Lawyer Simon Latch is struggling with debt, gambling issues and an impending divorce. But when Eleanor Barnett, an 85-year-old widow, visits his office to secure a new will, it seems his luck has finally changed: she claims she's sitting on a $20 million fortune and no one else knows about it. Once he's hooked the richest client of his career, Simon works quietly to keep her wealth under the radar. But it's a terrible mistake. Hidden secrets have a way of being found out, and when Eleanor is hospitalised after a car accident, Simon realises that nothing is as it seems. As events spiral out of control, he finds himself on trial for a crime he swears he didn't commit: murder. The Widow is classic Grisham courtroom drama combined with a confounding murder mystery that will enthral his legion of fans.