The Grass Widow by Vanessa Edwards
Book Info
Pages: 394 Pages
Age Category: Adult
Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Women's Fiction
Publication Date: August 17, 2023
Amazon: https://a.co/d/69hTfmd (Canada) https://a.co/d/c3AEZj5 (USA) https://amzn.eu/d/0dfttbBU (UK)
About the Book
Ditched by her married lover Hugh on the day she was made redundant, Leonie plans to make life difficult for Hugh while she searches for a new job. She inveigles her way into his house as a cleaner, intending to plant fake clues to his new liaison for his wife Amanda to find. But instead she discovers real clues to Amanda’s secrets.
Meanwhile, fellow cleaners Brenda and Tina also have hidden agendas as they work: Brenda is counting on a spot of blackmail and Tina is looking for financial information to sell to her dodgy brother-in-law.
At the centre of this web is Amanda’s gardener Simon: handsome, ruthless and plausible, with a shady past and lofty ambitions.
A death in an apparent accident arouses Leonie’s suspicions. Can she put aside her animosity towards Amanda and use her impressive – if sometimes unorthodox – investigative skills to find the truth before someone else dies?
About the Author
Vanessa is a solicitor specialising in EU law who has worked in private practice in London and Brussels and for the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
After taking early retirement from the legal profession she turned her hand to fiction.
She lives in Hampstead and likes wine, walking and music of many sorts. And of course reading and writing.
As soon as I started reading The Grass Widow I was getting the vibes of American Soap Operas of the past but with a very English feel. You had a rich housewife who needed help by hiring cleaners and oh boy did these cleaners have other things on their minds other than doing their jobs and I really ate that up and wanted more. I can't believe how many balls Vanessa had to juggle to make such an interesting plot I literally had to take notes while I read the book.
I found this well written and would of got 5 stars but I could not believe how Amanda seemed clueless in some areas but on it in others and as for the Male characters I was not keen on Simon and would of loved to have the character of Hugh a bit fleshed out.
I have to be honest if I saw this book I probably would not of picked it up but Blog Tours have taught me to look for the gems and this book certainly was.
For all the above reasons The Glass Widow receives 4 stars
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