Translate

Saturday, June 18, 2016

Finished: The Widow (Barton) Creepy page-turner about the widow of a man accused of kidnapping and killing a 3 year old girl. :-(  When I read the flap of the book, it just indicated mystery, etc. I didn't realize I'd be getting into the story of a man who started off with pornography and escalated to having to kidnap a youngster. Anyway, the book does keep you guessing and wondering if the guy was really guilty, since he gets off during his trial! Told from many different viewpoints, the widow, the detective, the reporter, the mother of the missing child and the husband himself, the book goes back and forth in time until finally, by the end of the story, you know for certain that he did it. Just when they're about to re-arrest him, though, his wife, pushes him in front of a bus and he dies. It turns out, he had confessed to her a few days before, after four years of insisting he was innocent, and even taken her to wear he had buried the little body. So, the story ends with the detective finally able to give the mother of the child some closure. However, the story material itself was just a bit too creepy and depressing for me!

No comments:

Post a Comment