Sidney Sheldon was one of the best thriller and mystery writers of the last century. It was hard to put down his books as you kept turning pages and yearned for the next chapter. Sidney Sheldon’s The Silent Widow is authored by Tilly Bagshawe and tries to recreate the same magic in this new tale spanning decades and countries as crime committed years ago threatens to unravel the criminal empire of one businessman.
Sidney Sheldon’s The Silent Widow
Tilly Bagshawe is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty novels, including six books in the Sidney Sheldon series.
Author: Sidney Sheldon & Tilly Bagshawe
Publisher: HarperCollinsChildrens UK; edition edition (January 1, 2018)
ISBN: 0008229635, 978-0008229634
Sidney Sheldon’s The Silent Widow Synopsis
The Silent Widow book follows Nikki Roberts, a psychiatrist, as bodies begin to fall around her and she loses people she loves in quick succession. Is this all just a big coincident? or is there a more deeper conspiracy at play?
These questions haunt detective Goodman and Johnson as they begin to investigate multiple murders with Nikki Roberts as the only connecting thread. Their investigations takes them back a year as the accidental death of Nikki’s husband seems more like a conspiracy and Nikki looks to be neck deep in the incident.
With DNA of a presumed dean man connecting the present murders, the mystery deepens further and the roots of Nikki’s suffering go at least a decade back to the disappearance of au pair Charlotte Clancy in Mexico.
The Silent Widow Book Review
Sidney Sheldon has always given us a larger than life thrillers spanning continents and one beyond our imagination. Compared to that, this book plot is very simplistic and the whole thing is typical of a Hollywood potboiler where it is one man’s crusade against a powerful crime boss and his well oiled city officials.
The book does come with a couple of surprises, but most of it is predictable and moves at very slow pace that doesn’t suit the thriller genre. Overall, the book has just enough to keep you invested, but makes it every hard keep going till the end.
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