The Widow: A Novel - John Grisham

Category: Crime, Thriller
Language: English
Keywords: Contemporary Legal Legal Thriller Marriage USA virginia

Written by John Grisham
Read by Michael Beck
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

A small-time lawyer accused of murder races to find the real killer to clear his name.

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….

Random House Audio, Oct 2025
14 hours and 23 minutes