Title: The Silent Widow
Author: Tilly Bagshawe
Publisher: HarperCollins
Price: INR 230/- (paperback) & INR 197/- (Kindle)
Extent: 448 Pages
Genre: Thriller
From the Blurb
A young American au pair, Charlotte Clancy, vanishes without a trace in Mexico City. The case is left cold, but its legacy will be devastating. A decade later, LA is shaken by a spate of violent murders. Psychologist Nikki Roberts is the common link between the victims, her patients at the heart of this treacherous web. When someone makes an attempt on Nikki’s life, it’s clear she is a marked woman.
Nikki makes a living out of reading people, drawing out their secrets, but the key to this shocking pattern eludes her. With the police at a dead end Nikki drafts in Derek Williams, a PI who isn’t afraid to put his hand into the hornet’s nest. Williams was thwarted in the notorious Charlotte Clancy case all those Years Ago, but what he unearths in LA – and the mention of one name in particular – leaves him cold, and takes him on a dangerous path into the past.
A shadowy manipulator has brought his deadly game to the streets of LA. In a crime spanning generations, it seems Nikki Roberts knows all too much – and a ruthless killer knows the price of her silence. In this crooked city, where enemies and friends are one and the same, Nikki must be the master of her own escape . . .
My Review
As the blurb suggests this is a thriller to the core. Everyone around Nikki, our protagonist is dying making her wonder if she was the real target. The Book is a real page turner and keeps you on the hooks.
There are so many things going on at the same time that it doesn't let you think. My only issue with the book was that there were too many sub-plots and like a typical bollywood thriller a few loopholes and few answers or reasons that weren't logical.
But if we ignore those; this is a typical Thriller that most of us have grown up reading. Fast paced, page turner, full of thrills. Perfect for travel reading where you just want to keep yourself busy. In fact perfect for a rainy day when you don't want to leave your couch & just want to laze around.
My Rating 3/5
Trivia: I have read quite a few books from Tilly and actually started reading her when I saw the name "Sidney Sheldon's" on her books. Initially I thought she was his assistant and is probably writing on his behalf. But with the frequency of books that she has been shelling out I felt the need to google to know the background. Though I found no clear answer but the closest I found was this on Yahoo "Sidney Sheldon died a couple of years ago. As sometimes happens when bestselling/trashy authors die, whoever he left his estate to (presumably surviving family members) decided to keep making money out of him by engaging another writer to write books in his name. That was Tilly Bagshawe. Presumably she either gets a flat fee for writing the books, or shares in the profits with Sheldon's family.
As the blurb suggests this is a thriller to the core. Everyone around Nikki, our protagonist is dying making her wonder if she was the real target. The Book is a real page turner and keeps you on the hooks.
There are so many things going on at the same time that it doesn't let you think. My only issue with the book was that there were too many sub-plots and like a typical bollywood thriller a few loopholes and few answers or reasons that weren't logical.
But if we ignore those; this is a typical Thriller that most of us have grown up reading. Fast paced, page turner, full of thrills. Perfect for travel reading where you just want to keep yourself busy. In fact perfect for a rainy day when you don't want to leave your couch & just want to laze around.
My Rating 3/5
Trivia: I have read quite a few books from Tilly and actually started reading her when I saw the name "Sidney Sheldon's" on her books. Initially I thought she was his assistant and is probably writing on his behalf. But with the frequency of books that she has been shelling out I felt the need to google to know the background. Though I found no clear answer but the closest I found was this on Yahoo "Sidney Sheldon died a couple of years ago. As sometimes happens when bestselling/trashy authors die, whoever he left his estate to (presumably surviving family members) decided to keep making money out of him by engaging another writer to write books in his name. That was Tilly Bagshawe. Presumably she either gets a flat fee for writing the books, or shares in the profits with Sheldon's family.
