The Widow starts slow and ends with a rapid reveal of what was there to be seen if we paid attention. The lawyer in this thriller, Simon Latch, should have been more attentive when the widow, Eleanor Barnett, walked into his office and spun a web of lies around his life and legal practice. Grisham usually creates a lawyer who is skilled in the courtroom. Simon Latch, a small-town Virginia lawyer, is unskilled and a failure at many levels.
He plays a deadly game as the spider web of greed closes around him. He is accused of murdering his own client (spoiler alert starts here), is convicted by a jury, and learns that nothing is as it seems. To save himself, he must find the real killer, who is someone we meet early in the book, if we were paying attention. Grisham is on my list of favorite authors for good reason.