Ditched by her married lover Hugh on the day she was made redundant, Leonie plans to make life difficult for Hugh while she searches for a new job. She inveigles her way into his house as a cleaner, intending to plant fake clues to his new liaison for his wife Amanda to find. But instead she discovers real clues to Amanda’s secrets.
Meanwhile, fellow cleaners Brenda and Tina also have hidden agendas as they work: Brenda is counting on a spot of blackmail and Tina is looking for financial information to sell to her dodgy brother-in-law.
At the centre of this web is Amanda’s gardener Simon: handsome, ruthless and plausible, with a shady past and lofty ambitions.
A death in an apparent accident arouses Leonie’s suspicions. Can she put aside her animosity towards Amanda and use her impressive – if sometimes unorthodox – investigative skills to find the truth before someone else dies?
The Grass Widow is a book that is filled with secrets, blackmail and plans for revenge. Nobody is who they seem and it it feels like everyone is being played; even the players are being played and I couldn't turn the pages fast enough to see who would be left standing at the end.
Leonie's life fell apart when her affair with a co-worker ended and she found herself single and out of work. Leonie is not going to go down without a fight and plans to take Hugh down with her so she poses as a cleaner to get into his house and plant evidence of his infidelity for his wife Amanda to find. Leonie's conscience gets the better of her when she starts to uncover Amanda's secrets and an unlikely alliance is formed.
Oh this book just keeps on revealing secrets with every turn of the page and the intricately woven plot keeps the reader on their toes. There is so much going on with every character hiding something and the fast-paced storyline twisted and turned right up to the outstanding conclusion.
Gripping and suspenseful from start to finish, The Grass Widow is an intelligent and unpredictable novel that I wouldn't hesitate to recommend.
I received an ARC to read and review for the blog tour and this is my honest and unbiased opinion.
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About the author:
Vanessa is a solicitor specialising in EU law who has worked in private practice in London and Brussels and for the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
After taking early retirement from the legal profession she turned her hand to fiction.
She lives in Hampstead and likes wine, walking and music of many sorts. And of course reading and writing.
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