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Dear Ms. Neggers:
I saw from your website that this is your first hardcover. I read your book directly after finishing Linda Howard’s Cover of Night. You would suppose that given La Belle Howard’s huge popularity and my love for many of her works, your placement in the reading order would result in a negative. Fortunately, I kept thinking throughout The Widow that this is how Linda Howard should have done it. Your book and Linda Howard’s have a couple of similarities.
Suspense thread
Grieving widow
Mild unrequited love (in Howard’s, this is a bit more pronounced).
On every level, this was a better story. Abigail Browning is a widow whose FBI Agent husband is killed on their honeymoon when the two of them went to stay in his home in upper Maine. One day, Abigail is attacked by someone and her necklace is stolen. Her husband, Christopher, comes home to find her injured. He is angry and believes he knows who is responsible. Later that night he goes out to confront the attacker. Chris does not return. Instead, he is found shot in the head …
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