Widow Lady

by Jane Kelly

Young widow, Katherine Caine, feels like a fish out of water in her neighborhood filled with happy families, or families that appear happy. It’s 1960 and presidential candidate, John Kennedy, is talking about a New Frontier, but Katherine can’t figure out where her personal New Frontier lies or how to get there. Playing a role in a murder plot is not on her list of possibilities, but that is what happens when she gets pulled into a domestic drama in the house across from hers. Soon she is wondering if being isolated from the other residents of Middle Street was such a bad thing. Still, she can’t stop looking for the truth.

366 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 25, 2015

About the author

Jane Kelly is a native of Philadelphia, close to the Jersey Shore settings of the Meg Daniels mysteries available from Plexus Publishing. Jane is also the author of the Widow Lady Mysteries and the Writing in Time Mysteries, both set in her hometown. She is the past president of the Delaware Valley chapter of Sisters in Crime and served on the board of the New York Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. Her next Meg Daniels novel, Last Seen in Sea Isle, will be released in April 2026. In 2025, she launched a series of novellas, the Meg Daniels Mystery Weekenders, in which all the action takes place in a weekend, and the book can be read in a weekend. In addition, she published a stand-alone novel, NIGHTINGALE SONGS, that is romantic but doesn't obey all the rules of a romance. Her latest publication is A DEATH IN SCILLY, a traditional mystery set on a small island off the coast of Cornwall.

Reviews

[Sandy Nork · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book. I’m old enough to remember many of the 1960s details and she got them right. The characters are well-developed. I was happily rooting for the Widow Lady to solve her dilemma, but it certainly didn’t go quite the way I anticipated. The plot is entertaining and comes with enough twists and turns to keep me guessing. I laughed out loud in many spots. A truly fun and entertaining mystery!