Sidney Sheldon’s The Silent Widow: A gripping new thriller for 2018 with killer twists and turns

Sidney Sheldon’s The Silent Widow: A gripping new thriller for 2018 with killer twists and turns
Sidney Sheldon

Tilly Bagshawe

New York Times Bestselling AuthorSweeping from Mexico City to the dark underbelly of LA, The Silent Widow has all the trademark glamour, suspense and unexpected twists of a classic Sidney Sheldon novel.A young American au pair, Charlotte Clancy, vanishes without a trace in Mexico City. The case is left cold, but its legacy will be devastating.A decade later, LA is shaken by a spate of violent murders. Psychologist Nikki Roberts is the common link between the victims, her patients at the heart of this treacherous web. When someone makes an attempt on Nikki’s life, it’s clear she is a marked woman.Nikki makes a living out of reading people, drawing out their secrets, but the key to this shocking pattern eludes her. With the police at a dead end Nikki drafts in Derek Williams, a PI who isn’t afraid to put his hand into the hornet’s nest. Williams was thwarted in the notorious Charlotte Clancy case all those years ago, but what he unearths in LA – and the mention of one name in particular – leaves him cold, and takes him on a dangerous path into the past.A shadowy manipulator has brought his deadly game to the streets of LA. In a crime spanning generations, it seems Nikki Roberts knows all too much – and a ruthless killer knows the price of her silence.In this crooked city, where enemies and friends are one and the same, Nikki must be the master of her own escape . . .

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Source ISBN: 9780008229634

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Version: 2018-05-21

Dedication (#ue9eb76ed-e118-5cc6-b80d-c21874c6174a)

For Alice, with love.

Table of Contents

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Title Page (#udebf6092-bcfd-5461-afe1-49321cdb1107)

Copyright (#u8416708d-7bd9-52b6-8ab9-5d5769977e9d)

Dedication (#ue4616d13-1ca5-5f0d-9c03-701a0c955cdc)

Prologue (#u7222dc45-dccf-5e59-b8a3-e18672952d80)

Part One (#u0434792b-89d6-5433-865d-cd5ca69ccfdb)

Chapter One (#u510eb08f-9038-52de-83cc-388d6cf4d26c)

Chapter Two (#u6853c6a4-7b13-548d-b69c-f5115ef101fb)

Chapter Three (#u6fb2aeb3-f880-5765-91b3-3e1039734f40)

Chapter Four (#u3717e547-94ed-53db-836a-ede2f3f4af09)

Chapter Five (#u2bcb2242-fae9-5b69-adad-46eb325661a0)

Chapter Six (#uf25f3c40-797f-58ad-b074-8511a2db73ec)

Chapter Seven (#ue228c1c2-1a35-5a88-909d-8b71c0740bdd)

Chapter Eight (#ud227a188-c358-5302-b4b8-94998e08c0b6)

Chapter Nine (#u41c45f11-e644-57f7-b45a-932f1763354f)

Chapter Ten (#u0731001e-3b4e-57ae-a7e8-453e0ff6fc6b)

Chapter Eleven (#u6f931bc0-7137-50dc-8ec5-5adbee5a52eb)

Chapter Twelve (#u0c9a60f0-7aa9-51fd-8dfc-690622b7e6f0)

Chapter Thirteen (#u3b9bd3d5-cd35-51eb-b70a-b7b0014b949c)

Chapter Fourteen (#u6d4480d3-8663-545a-8b88-96002788694d)

Chapter Fifteen (#u4911e592-f6bd-5f36-9719-1b69840e8ba3)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)