Widow

by Billie Sue Mosiman

After her husband kills his two sons and himself, Kay Mandel becomes a stripper in order to poison men, but even after her taste for vengeance is satisfied, someone picks up where she leaves off. Original.

Genres: Thriller, Mystery

374 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 1, 1995

About the author

Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel
Stoker Award Nominee for Superior Novel

Novelist, short story writer, columnist, writing instructor, editor.
My published novels are now available at Kindle.com, along with new short story anthologies and novellas.

Reviews

[A.D. Roland]

....you can't kill someone with rat poison, especially not a full grown adult. Rat poison is 90% corn. It doesn't dissolve in whiskey. It's corn--it doesn't dissolve at all. Pure strychnine, yep, they're dead. Pure arsenic. Might take a little while, but yeah, they's dead then, too. But grocery-store rat poison...it might give a kid a stomachache if they ate a whole box. Won't kill a dude.

Sort of give it a Mikayla smirk in terms of how good the book is. (google "Not impressed meme" and that will make sense to the uninitiated) I didn't really believe the titular characters motivation to kill, and prior to that, her instant recovery from catatonia.

[April · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting story, even if I didn't care for the conclusion.

[Shawn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Slow moving, the first few chapters jump around from one character to another, giving both characters two names so we're not sure who we're following, and for no good reason because this confusion is resolved in the first few chapters. It's just a waste of time in some slow-moving character/plot building that needed to be sped up, not bogged down for dramatic effect or for suspense building.

If this is a genre that you read a lot, you might like it, might be willing to deal with the fluff and crap to get to the meat, but it's definitely not for dabblers, for those of us who don't read the horror/suspense genre a lot, the filler just feels like filler.

[M.L. Roos · Rating 5 out of 5]

LOVED this story, loved Kay and Shadow. Loved the journey. If you have never read anything by Billie Sue Mosiman you are missing a true storyteller. Bille Sue has the power to take your imagination and hold it hostage for a few hours and you will so love the journey.

Kay had the perfect life, the perfect husband and perfect children until one day her the unspeakable happened. Her husband killed her children and himself in a moment of madness and Kay is destroyed. She is determined the find out why and discovers the answer is a simple one; because he can. Kay discovers a power within herself and sets out to test the men she comes across in her life to see if they are capable of similar misdeeds. They better hope they answer the questions in the right way......

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

A novel of mystery, suspense and murder. Kay has the perfect family and then they were taken away from her. Kay life was thrown into a tailspin and her life would never be the same again. The book includes a serial killer, a copycat murder and a cop. The first set of killings were done to seek revenge. The copycat murder pick up where the serial killer left off. Billie Sue Mosiman is an excellent writer and story teller.

[Melissa · Rating 2 out of 5]

I did not enjoy this book. The pace was incredibly slow. I found the lead character uninteresting and Charlene was incredibly irritating. The ending was disappointing. Considering the rest of the novel, I should have expected it.

[Sheri Dawn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book. Kept me interested to find out how it ends. Some parts were graphic but all in all a good read. Didn't care much for the ending but is worth reading.

[Ed Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great page turner. dDlving into the human phych,the plot could be possible, even probable

[A.B. Shepherd · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

My first Billie Sue Mosiman ebook and one that kept me intrigued and was impossible to put down.