Book Review: The Widow Catcher by Jonette Blake

´Fine. You have been drawn into a deadly game of murder and blackmail. Does that satisfy you?´

In the Australian city of Batemans Bay, situated on the South coast of New South Wales, old ladies with a certain financial standing are dying unexpectedly. All of them happen to have the accounts managed by the same bank and are also members of a book club organised by a former celebrity. 

Delia Frost a head teller to the bank is invited by her curteous colleague Andrew to participate to one of the monthly sessions of the book club and although not the avid reader she would like to be, she accepts the invitation as she is trying to figure out her next personal and professional steps. Her husband, Richard, is slowly recovering from a heart attack, her grown-up children left the nest and are travelling far away from home, and she and her husband are planning a one-year road country trip while she is about to be promoted at work. Delia´s plate is getting full.

But take care what do you wish for! The distraction from her everyday challenges seems to be more than a distraction, but highly dangerous as she and her husband are the targets of the revengeful Andrew as they are about to embark on the family trip of their lives.

The Widow Catcher by Jonette Blake is a cosy mystery, with the guilty suspect known when 40% into the book, but one may still stay awake until the very end in order to figure out if he will be caught and what and whom else is top on his list. A criminal with a heavy family trauma, his profile is not necessarily complex, while his way of acting is. 

The story has some surprising twists, especially in the very end, and can count as an entertaining weekend afternoon read. 

Rating: 3 stars

Disclaimer: Book offered by the publisher in exchange for an honest review