{"id":24086,"date":"2026-04-07T08:50:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24086"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:11:38","slug":"book-19-of-52-the-widow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/book-19-of-52-the-widow\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 19 (of 52) &#8211; The Widow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24087\" style=\"width: 342px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/thewidow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24087\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24087\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/thewidow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/thewidow.jpg 332w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/thewidow-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Widow &#8211; John Grisham<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A small-town lawyer in Virgina thinks he has hit the jackpot: a rich client with no family looking to prepare a will.\u00a0 When she then dies suddenly, an autopsy shows she was poisoned and that will, which looked like a godsend to the financially struggling lawyer, now acts as a motive for murder.\u00a0 When he is convicted of the crime despite a distinct lack of non-circumstantial evidence, he goes on the offensive, looking for the real killer before he reports to prison.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Widow<\/em>, the latest from John Grisham, was a 2025 nominee for Favorite Mystery &amp; Thriller in the Goodreads Choice awards.\u00a0 This was a small change of pace from Grisham, adding a who-done-it mystery to his usual legal thriller genre.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been reading Grisham&#8217;s work for well over 30 years now, albeit with a few fallow years along the way, so a little variety in approach is not a bad thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small-town lawyer in Virgina thinks he has hit the jackpot: a rich client with no family looking to prepare a will.\u00a0 When she then dies suddenly, an autopsy shows she was poisoned and that will, which looked like a godsend to the financially struggling lawyer, now acts as a motive for murder.\u00a0 When he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9295,707,12553],"class_list":["post-24086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-goodreads-choice-awards","tag-john-grisham","tag-the-widow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24124,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24086\/revisions\/24124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}