The Widow: - Will Patching-Crime thriller
Detective Sergeant Fiona Fielding is back at work after a period of sick leave and
wanting to get back to her old style jobs. She was abducted and suffered an attack
which she is still having nightmares about. She is seeing a psychologist who needs to
sign her fit for duties.she also discovers that he is seeing her boss in a romantic way.
Lorraine Rowe has been split from her violent husband for five months. She realises
how much he has changed since they first met. She dislikes him and just wants him
out of her life for good. When she receives a call saying that he is dead and unless she
pays up a rather large sum she too could be next. He has suffered a very violent death.
The two women have shared experiences however with a journalist wanting a story in
the mix its difficult to get the widow to talk the truth. Ooh! I liked Fifi and felt for her
predicament in wanting to find the truth but being a little intimidated by what had gone
before. Will has the skill of writing well rounded characters and a plot that keeps you
turning the pages to find out more. good to read the explanations at the end. The parts
that are real and how things came about. Nice also to have a character with PTSD
a much misunderstood illness that can have devastating effects on someone’s life.
Thanks Will, I really enjoyed this.
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Book Description:
A brutally murdered husband. An abused wife who wanted him gone for good… Did the wealthy widow arrange his death—and can a disgraced detective discover the truth?
"Your husband is dead."
Lorraine Rowe receives the news from an anonymous killer threatening her too—unless she pays an inflated fee for her estranged partner’s murder. Overwhelmed by fear and indecision, Lorraine struggles to survive as her carefully constructed life of lies begins to unravel.
Detective Sergeant Fiona ‘Fifi’ Fielding is fighting for her future after allowing her violent temper to jeopardise her career. Is it karma that dumps a man’s badly tortured corpse on her doorstep—or something more sinister? And will the ensuing investigation enable Fiona to redeem herself?
Both women have lived through traumatic events and have much in common, but when the truth-seeker meets the accomplished dissembler, events spiral inexorably towards a deadly climax.
This hard-hitting, twisted thriller weaves deception, misdirection and psychological torment into a page-turning tale of murder and mayhem that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Not for the faint of heart…
The Widow is the first standalone novel in a loosely linked series inspired by The Seven Deadly Sins.
Deadly Inspirations – Book one ‘GREED’
A British Police Thriller featuring Detective Sergeant Fiona ‘Fifi’ Fielding. If you like complex plots,
strong female characters, and high-stakes murder mysteries with plenty of suspense, you’ll love Will Patching’s latest gripping novel.
Author Bio:
Will Patching was born and raised in ‘Sarf Lunnon’, Engerland, or at least, that’s how he
pronounces it! Hence, many scenes from his novels are situated in London, the surrounding
suburbs and other parts of southeast England, though they also span as far afield as Thailand
and the USA.
His approach to writing is to hit the reader with hard truths about the world we live in, and his
mysteries, thrillers, and suspense novels are designed to get your pulse pounding. One male
reader decided he needed to check his door locks late one night while reading Remorseless and subsequently commented on social media:
‘Seriously scary!’
Will’s eclectic professional experience – from his teenage role as a ‘gardener’ weeding sewage
treatment filter beds, through flying a Hawk jet very fast, very low and very dangerously before
the RAF realised and booted him out, then attending Harvard on a course for potential CEOs,
largely thanks to the Peter Principle of promotion, and more recently, to building his dream, a
charter yacht that sank in SE Asian waters – all have led to a rich and varied life, often
reflected in his writing.
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Thanks for being on the blog tour today Nicki x
ReplyDeleteThank you for your review, Nicki! Much appreciated. :-)
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