The widow

by Carolyn Slaughter

Brilliant heart surgeon and twice-widowed mother of four, Bella is the paragon of a working woman. Beautiful, disciplined and ferociously intelligent, she is the envy of her colleagues and the favourite of her friends. But something, somewhere, is wrong.
Joseph Sunderland, a criminal psychiatrist, is excited and intrigued when he meets Bella at a party. Immediately attracted by her arrogance and incisive wit he also notes the steel-trap memory and complete silence about two dead husbands. There are some startling inconsistencies in her by turns warm and distant, she also shivers unaccountably, and her children wear the troubled faces of orphans.
Joseph soon finds his professional interest
overshadowed by a fierce battle of wits with a
woman who has much more than the secret of
her success at stake.
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An elegant psycho-thriller likely to hook you from the opening sentence to the superbly ambiguous finale .

249 pages, Hardcover

About the author

Carolyn Slaughter was born in New Delhi, India, and spent most of her childhood in the Kalahari Desert of what is now Botswana. Soon after leaving Africa in 1961, she wrote what would later become her highly acclaimed novel Dreams of the Kalahari. She followed this with eight more novels. After living for many years in London, she moved to the United States with her family in 1986.