An easy-read thriller with plenty of twists and turns to keep you guessing right to the end, The Determined Widow explores friendship through adversity and how having faith can overcome a malicious presence. It offers a pleasant distraction to the crazy goings on in 2022.

Bella Stone has struggled through life. Things that seem to come easily to others feel difficult to achieve.

When she meets the man of her dreams, things finally seem set to change. She cannot believe how quickly she has fallen in love. When her boyfriend proposes, she finds herself uncharacteristically saying yes without giving it second thought.

Three months to the day they were married, she finds herself a widow.

Alone, lost in grief and disbelief at how cruelly fate has treated her, Bella invests all her energy in persuading the authorities to treat their investigation as a murder inquiry. She has no proof, just her gut instinct. No one in authority will take her seriously and despite her best efforts, the official verdict is recorded as accidental death.

After 16 months of being ignored Bella finally gets a break. Her ex from years ago, Max, works with a private investigation agency. Here her experience is very different. They welcome her, take her seriously and to her utter delight; she begins to feel a ray of hope in finally getting to the truth of what really happened to her husband.

Little to do any of them know the trouble is only beginning. None of them has any idea what they are getting themselves into. By the time they realise something is off, their lives are already in danger.

As well as solving the mystery of Bella’s husband’s death, the team discover they have become the target of a sadistic killer who seems determined to stop the truth coming out.

Within the group of suspects; none of whom are what they first appear, lurks a ruthless killer determined not to be unmasked…

And so it begins...