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John Grisham, author of The Widow

Simon Latch is a lawyer in rural Virginia, making just enough to pay his bills while his marriage slowly falls apart. Then into his office walks Eleanor Barnett, an elderly widow in need of a new will. Apparently, her husband left her a small fortune, and no one knows about it. Once he hooks the richest client of his career, Simon works quietly to keep her wealth under the radar. But soon her story begins to crack. When she is hospitalized after a car accident, Simon realizes that nothing is as it seems, and he finds himself on trial for a crime he swears he didn’t commit: murder. Simon knows he’s innocent. But he also knows the circumstantial evidence is against him, and he could spend the rest of his life behind bars. To save himself, he must find the real killer.

Week of August 3, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of August 3rd include John Grisham's first-ever whodunit, THE WIDOW, in which a small-time lawyer accused of murder races to find the real killer to clear his name; THE ELEVENTH HOUR by Salman Rushdie, a spellbinding exploration of life, death and what comes into focus at the proverbial 11th hour of life; Philippa Gregory's BOLEYN TRAITOR, a dazzling historical novel of ambition, betrayal and survival in the court of Henry VIII; THE BREAK-IN by Katherine Faulkner, a gripping domestic thriller in which a wealthy London mother must unravel a terrifying mystery filled with twists and turns after killing an intruder in self-defense; and FLESH, David Szalay's Booker Prize-winning novel about a man whose life veers off course due to a series of unforeseen circumstances.