Abigail Browning, a Boston detective, is haunted by the murder of her FBI special agent husband, Chris. It happened seven years ago on their honeymoon, and she has vowed not to stop until she finds Chris's killer.
Her quest takes her back to the scene of the crime, Mt. Desert Island in Maine, where secrets abound and Abigail is an outsider trying to break the code, tolerated only because she is Chris's widow. She gets help from Owen Garrison, Chris's friend and neighbor who found his dead body and now has an interest in Abigail's live one.
THE WIDOW by Carla Neggers may be one of the best romantic suspense books I've read in a long time.
Simply put, Ms. Neggers kept me guessing until the very end. Rather than red herrings that I later would easily point to as such, she unfolded the story in such a way that each suspect truly could have been the murderer. That alone says it all but in addition, Ms. Neggers provided a haunting romantic story, filled with interesting characters, some of whom I loved and some I despised. All the good guys don't get what they want at the end and all the bad guys don't get their comeuppance. Rather, the reader is left with a complex tale that whets her appetite for more, if not of this story and these characters, then certainly of Ms. Neggers' writing. I can't think of a more satisfactory ending.
Homicide detective, Abigail Browning has spent the last
seven years haunted by her husbandβs death. Four days after
her wedding to Christopher, her husband met his death along
the rocky Mount Desert Island coast. Was the shooting a
random act of violence, or could someone have wanted
Christopher dead?
Still determined to find her husbandβs killer, Abigail
returns to her inherited home on the foggy Maine island
after receiving an anonymous tip. Hoping itβs not another
false lead, she sets out to finally prove that his death
was tied to something that happened that night . . . and
that Chris was indeed murdered.
As Abigail teams up with the search-and-rescue worker, Owen
Garrison, who first located Chris on that fateful night,
they begin to unravel the mystery. Abigailβs very presence
on the island causes a commotion among the islanders, and
soon, Owen and Abigail learn that the layers of deceit and
lies are even thicker than they could have imagined.
They're convinced that Chris was killed because he got too
close to the truth and that the danger he faced isn't in
the pastβit's here and now. And it's up to Abigail and Owen
to keep pushing for the truth . . . to stop a killer from
striking again . . .
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