Desperate Deadly Widows
A Novel
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3.8 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The widows are back! Big hair and bigger lies collide in the highly anticipated follow-up to Young Rich Widows, where nothing’s more dangerous than a widow with nothing left to lose.
Set in neon-drenched Providence, Rhode Island, circa 1987, just two years after a plane carrying four mafia-affiliated law-firm partners exploded over the Atlantic along with the cushy lives of their once wealthy wives. Now, Krystle fights to keep their fallen law firm afloat. Justine hustles as a lawyer-in-training. Meredith owns and operates the strip club where she once danced. And Camille orchestrates honey-pot schemes for scorned women–until one of her arrangements goes terribly wrong, and she becomes implicated in the debauched Mayor Tom’s mysterious murder in the champagne room. With everything on the line, the widows must join forces once more. But as the conspiracy unravels beyond the mayor's demise, their search for justice pits first wife against second wife and widow against widow. With the widows’ fragile bond now tested, will the women cement their friendships, or is loyalty a luxury they just can’t afford?
In this thrilling expansion of the Widows universe, brimming with sloshed champagne, smeared lipstick, and lethal secrets, Desperate Deadly Widows unfolds as an edge-of-your-seat thriller where desperation wears stilettos, trust is a poker chip, and redemption comes at the cost of everything you thought you knew.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Belle, Fargo, Holahan, and Lillie reunite for a spirited sequel to Young Rich Widows. It's 1987 in Providence, R.I., two years after the plane crash that killed a law firm's partners and left the operation of the business to their wives. The women are now scrambling to keep the firm afloat: mama bear Krystal is calling the shots, new mother Justine is studying law, and sexpot Camille has launched a service to entrap philandering husbands. Meanwhile, former dancer Meredith has broken away from the firm to take over the strip club where she used to work. When Providence mayor Tom Bradley drops dead at Meredith's club after drinking a glass of champagne she offered him, Meredith is swiftly arrested, and the widows set about proving their friend's innocence. Party-crashing and double-crossing ensue, with all signs eventually pointing to an elaborate frame job. Each author writes alternating chapters from the perspective of one of the main characters, injecting wit and personality into a breakneck plot that swerves from madcap to poignant. Along the way, they land gentle insights about social class and the value of sisterhood. Fans of the first novel will eat this up.
