![]() ![]() ![]() " The Wife and the Widow is one of the most original crime novels of the year and White is clearly a rising international star of the now very vibrant Australian crime fiction scene. A conference, she quickly discovers, he never attended. Kate Keddie’s smooth, predictable life careens off course when her husband, John, doesn’t return from a medical conference in London. With engaging characters, an intriguing plot and an absolute KILLER twist, The Wife and the Widow ticks all. The Wife and the Widow is the second standalone thriller from author Christian White, where two women seek to uncover the dark secrets of their husbands. ![]() His debut novel, The Nowhere Child, won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. Christian White’s best-selling debut The Nowhere Child took the world by storm, and his second novel The Wife and the Widow (Affirm Press 2019) is another psychological crime thriller that will have readers on the edges of their seats. Some readers will find the twists fair and others, infuriating, but no doubt all will hang on to discover the ending." - Kirkus Reviews Christian White is an Australian author and screenwriter. "The author does a vivid job of creating real characters and captures the alternately calm and claustrophobic feeling of island life. Fans of White's debut will be pleased with this follow-up." - Booklist "White delivers a shocking, excellently executed twist that will have readers reexamining their assumptions this and the sordid details of decades-old misery and fierce parental love make The Wife and the Widow a story to remember. Readers will eagerly await White's next." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Superior plotting buoyed by strong characters.A clever twist near the end upends the plot's trajectory. ![]()
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