The Widow, John Grisham
The Widow, John Grisham
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The Widow

Bestseller

Author: John Grisham

Narrator: Michael Beck

Unabridged: 14 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/21/2025

Synopsis

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • John Grisham is the acclaimed master of the legal thriller. Now, he’s back with his first-ever whodunit, even more suspenseful than his courtroom dramas, as a small-time lawyer accused of murder races to find the real killer to clear his name.

“A classic, compulsive, taut and thrilling novel from one of the great storytellers of our time. The Widow is John Grisham at his irresistible, unforgettable best.”—Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colors of the Dark

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….

About John Grisham

John Ray Grisham, Jr. was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas on February 8, 1955. Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University and later from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. He was a practicing criminal attorney for over ten years and then served in the House of Representatives from 1984 to 1990. He published his first novel in 1989 after working on it for five years. ‘A Time to Kill’, his first novel, launched his new career and was later made into a major motion picture. His first bestseller, ‘The Firm’, released in 1991, sold over seven million copies and was made into a box office hit starring Tom Cruise two years later. Almost twenty years later in 2012, a TV series was launched and picks up the life of Mitch McDeere and his family ten years after the events of the novel.

John Grisham has had his novels translated into more than forty languages and has sold nearly 300 million copies worldwide. He is a winner of the prestigious Galaxy British Book Award and is one of only three authors (the other two being Tom Clancy and J.K. Rowling) to ever sell two million copies of a first published novel. Nine of his novels (including ‘The Firm and ‘A Time to Kill’ have been made into major motion pictures.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John on March 27, 2025

I just finished my next novel. It’s called The Widow and will be published by Doubleday in October. It’s another legal thriller (surprise, surprise!) filled with all the usual twists and turns of legal intrigue and lawyers behaving badly. It also has something new that’s kind of unique. It’s the fir......more

Goodreads review by Casey Reads 🌸 on June 12, 2025

This one started off really great and I could see where motive for a murder was coming. An old lady claiming she has a suspiciously large amount of money and assets with no one to claim them. This book lost me a bit in the middle. It seemed very repetitive and was just describing the lawyers life. I......more

Goodreads review by Summer on October 06, 2025

Anyone who is familiar with Grisham’s work knows what to expect going in. John always masterfully delivers a tense legal thriller but in his upcoming work The Widow, we get this plus a whodunnit element! The Widow is pure entertainment. Full of interesting characters including a Saul Goodman type la......more

Goodreads review by Jonetta on October 23, 2025

the setup… Simon Latch is a small town lawyer with a modest practice in Braxton, Virginia. He specializes in the simple stuff like bankruptcies and wills, barely enough to pay the bills. Simon’s marriage is crumbling and he has a slight gambling habit. Everything changes when Eleanor Barnett walks in......more

Goodreads review by Linzie (suspenseisthrillingme) on November 03, 2025

In typical John Grisham style, The Widow entertained with a drawn-out yet juicy legal battle, but this time around there was the added benefit of a well-plotted whodunnit. Multilayered and fully fleshed out, the storyline twisted and turned throughout the 400 pages. It was, however, the trademark re......more

Quotes

“A classic, compulsive, taut and thrilling novel from one of the great storytellers of our time. The Widow is John Grisham at his irresistible, unforgettable best. No one does it better.”—Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark

“A captivating legal whodunit . . . [Grisham’s] nuanced portrait of Latch demonstrates his gift for constructing morally flawed yet sympathetic characters. The author’s fans will be galvanized by this impressive return to form.”—Publishers Weekly

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