Black Widow: Award-Winning Crime Novel of the Year

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'A celtic Gone Girl... guaranteed to keep you guessing' --- IAN RANKIN

*****WINNER Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year*****

*****WINNER Bloody Scotland McIlvanney Prize for Crime Novel of the Year*****

Did she do it Did he deserve it

Diana Jager is clever, strong and successful, a skilled surgeon and fierce campaigner via her blog about sexism. Yet it takes only hours for her life to crumble when her personal details are released on the internet as revenge for her writing.

Then she meets Peter. He's kind, generous, and knows nothing about her past: the second chance she's been waiting for.

Within six months, they are married. Within six more, Peter is dead in a road accident, a nightmare end to their fairytale romance.

But Peter's sister Lucy doesn't believe in fairytales, and tasks maverick reporter Jack Parlabane with discovering the dark truth behind the woman the media is calling Black Widow...

'Black Widow is a stand-out thriller'

Renee Knight, author of Disclaimer

Reviews

Chris Brookmyre takes crime fans exactly where they want to go - Daily Telegraph

His writing is as sharply observed and mordantly funny as ever - Guardian

Chris Brookmyre is a genius - Daily Mirror

Tense, intense and quite, quite brilliant - Jenny Colgan

Author Bio

Chris Brookmyre was a journalist before becoming a full-time novelist with the publication of his award-winning debut Quite Ugly One Morning, which established him as one of Britain's leading crime writers. His 2006 novel All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye won the Everyman Bollinger Wodehouse Prize, and his 2016 novel Black Widow won both the McIlvanney Prize and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award. Brookmyre's novels have sold more than two million copies in the UK alone. His work has been adapted for stage, television, radio and, in the case of Bedlam, a video game.