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The Silent Widow by Sidney Sheldon, a captivating thriller! : Review

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The Silent Widow


Author: Sidney Sheldon

Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers Ltd.

Pages-438 Price -₹399

Genre - Fiction

 

Having a knack for thrillers? Are you becoming the detective in your novel in hand? Then the wait is over because “The Silent Widow” is your one stop solution. It brews a potpourri of suspense, vendetta leaving us in a gamut of bewildered ecstasy oftentimes, stringed with certain awe. Illustrated by Tilly Bagshawe, Sheldon the author of eighteen previous best-selling novels – with a demonstrated records of over 300 million copies and approx. 200 television scripts. Each holding high accolades in New York Times bestsellers.

Spread over a rollercoaster ride of forty-one (41) chapters, it deals the negated topics of drug addictions, underlying crimes for drugs like crokodile , marijuana et al. in none other than but pivoting it around Mexico City. The novel reflects a sheer eloquence and lucidity in style with certain anecdotes from real life happenings.

The cover of the book appears simple yet mysterious – as the blackened lady supposedly the “widow” walks into faded sunlight with a shadow of a man following, the apt use of eeriness. It shows the author's appeal of holding onto his reader’s attention till the very end. The use of flashbacks, the repeated suspicion on wrong persons and the secret yet quite unknown relation of the victims with the protagonist Dr. Nikki Roberts, a psychologist. She makes her living out of reading people’s minds, a contrast to her own unknown relation with the fellow victims.

The story comes to stir when a young American AU pair Charlotte Clancy vanishes without a trace in Mexico City. About a decade later, Los Angeles is shaken by the gruesome train of violent murders, where Nikki the common link is questioned. As the story advances, one after another her clients and dear ones are murdered, whom the detectives claim was her plan. However, at last the truth unfolds and to the reader’s astonishment the same detective Goodman tries to kill her for his promotion and the violent murders were planned by none other than by a businessman Rodriguez. He with the help of Brandon Grolsch, a drug addict had executed their heinous plans.

I personally recommend this book in particular as it held to every promise it made. Full with thrilled, chilling excitement, it leaves the reader’s mind in a hullabaloo, while they  pass it as a ‘must read'. So what are you waiting for! Dive into this world of horror, fight your fears and emerge triumphant into the world of truth.. And relive the detective in yourself.

 

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Review by – ©ANISHA DAS  (𝓐𝓷𝓾𝓼𝓱✿)

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