Black Widow tells the potent story of a woman who thought she was too late for love, the man who falls for her ambition, and the secret selves that are poised, at any moment, to end everything.

Diana Jager is clever, strong, and successful, a skilled surgeon and fierce campaigner via her blog about sexism in medicine. 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 is 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 fairy-tale romance. But Peter's sister Lucy doesn't believe in fairy tales, and tasks rogue reporter Jack Parlabane with discovering the dark truth behind the woman the media is calling the Black Widow.

Still on the mend from a turbulent divorce, Jack's investigation into matters of the heart takes him to hidden places no one should ever have to go. [fantasticfiction.com]

BLACK WIDOW (Jack Parlabane 7) by CHRIS BROOKMYRE (2016) | ISBN: 9780349141329 (UK PB) | Publisher: Abacus

I heard Chris Brookmyre talk about BLACK WIDOW, his latest book at the time, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2016, and it subsequentially won the McIlvanney Prize at Bloody Scotland*, in September of that year. This then is the second copy I have registered with BookCrossing, though I have not read this far into the series myself yet.

. . . I’ll pop back here and leave a review after I have read this . . .

Carried out my plan of cheerfully securing this 'onto' a Christmas box as an extra treat. 'Onto' as there was no room inside the box, and strapping it onto the outside happily did not take the box size over the weight or size limits of a 'UK Small Parcel'. Posted from Edinburgh on Tuesday the 17th of December 2019, arrived with its next reader.

Hope this intrigues Buffbrit, hope your Festive Season is full of treats and 2020 brings with it many monents of delight, greetings rainbow3!