Widows & Orphans
Written by Susan Meissner
Narrated by Tavia Gilbert
4/5
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Susan Meissner
Susan Meissner is a USA TODAY bestselling author with more than three-quarters of a million books in print in eighteen languages. Her novels have been named to numerous "best of" lists, including Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Goodreads, and Real Simple magazine. A former newspaper editor, Susan attended Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego and lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and their yellow Lab, Winston. When she's not writing, Susan loves long walks, good coffee, and reading bedtime stories to her grandchildren. Visit her online at susanmeissnerauthor.com; Instagram: @susanmeissnerauthor; Twitter: @SusanMeissner; Facebook: @susan.meissner; and Pinterest: @SusanMeissner.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Rachael Flynn is a NY-based lawyer whose brother has confessed to first degree homicide. She returns to her home state of Minnesota to provide moral support to her parents, and see what's what. She doesn't believe that her brother, a man who had dedicated his life to helping widows and orphans (as per KJV James 1:27,) would kill a man; and so goes about investigating without actually interfering. One of the techniques she uses is to have her artist- husband and friends draw out possible scenarios; and reacting to what her instincts tell her. It is not clear from the publisher's summary, and should probably made more clear both for readers who like this sub-genre, and for those that don't; but this is Christian-based fiction: The character's personalities are religiously grounded; actions on the brother's part are based on a narrow interpretation of a Bible passage; and the protag ascribes divine and abstract values to her intuitive senses. As for the writing itself, it suffers somewhat structurally: Much of the book has Rachael Flynn running around declaiming that her brother couldn't have possibly have done the crime to which he has confessed; and that no one knows him like she does. There's not really any tension, or sense of anything really happening. In the end, the final scenario is played out twice, ostensibly from two POVs; but nothing is added to our understanding of the situation with the second re-telling. The scenario itself was interesting; but ultimately the novel was a good idea poorly executed.