{"id":41257,"date":"2016-08-09T10:11:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T14:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=41257"},"modified":"2020-01-07T04:34:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T09:34:09","slug":"widow-fiona-barton-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/widow-fiona-barton-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Widow by Fiona Barton [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41187\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/07\/Widow-by-Fiona-Barton-on-BookDragon-via-Library-Journal-537x800.jpg\" alt=\"Widow by Fiona Barton on BookDragon via Library Journal\" width=\"537\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/07\/Widow-by-Fiona-Barton-on-BookDragon-via-Library-Journal-537x800.jpg 537w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/07\/Widow-by-Fiona-Barton-on-BookDragon-via-Library-Journal.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/>While the titular widow is the character around which all others circle, she\u2019s certainly not alone in holding secrets. Jean Taylor (read with unnerving control by Hannah Curtis) stood by her husband, Glen, through the heinous accusations leveled against him, until a week ago when he died suddenly in a freak accident.<\/p>\n<p>The determined reporter (read with crisp efficiency by Mandy Williams) wants the front-page scoop about Jean\u2019s suffering. The exasperated detective (voiced with convincing frustration by Nicholas Guy Smith) is obsessed with fully revealing the alleged crime. The mother (read with raw desperation by Jayne Entwistle) of the little girl Glen was charged with, then acquitted of, snatching (and worse) just wants to know what happened to her baby.<\/p>\n<p>Glen (chillingly voiced by Steve West) has endless explanations and justifications for everything he did \u2013 and didn\u2019t do.\u00a0Declarations, promises, manipulations, and confessions collide over a dead man who can only speak the truth through the perfectly devoted wife he left behind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict<\/strong>: Barton\u2019s addictive, hair-raising debut further augments the expanding shelf of alarming, across-the-Pond imports, including Paula Hawkins\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-girl-on-the-train-by-paula-hawkins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Girl on the Train<\/em><\/a>, S.J. Watson\u2019s <em>Before I Go to Sleep<\/em>, and Tana French\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/series-dublin-murder-squad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cDublin Murder Squad\u201d series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.libraryjournal.com\/2016\/07\/media\/audio\/audiobooks-from-barton-bauer-carpenter-chiarella-jacobson-pope-francis-spinella-xpress-reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Xpress Reviews: Audiobooks,&#8221; <em>Library Journal<\/em>, July 29, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the titular widow is the character around which all others circle, she\u2019s certainly not alone in holding secrets. 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