The First Widow by Rob Starr

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Over a hundred husbands dead.

Countless secrets.

The most horrifying case of Kiara Fox’s career…

Kiara Fox leads a relatively ordinary life as a fraud investigator, looking into life insurance claims. With a loving husband and twin daughters, her world seems close to perfect. But when a case involving a wealthy businessman named Martin Powers lands on her desk, she senses something is off.

After her bosses put undue pressure on her to pay the claim quickly, she is convinced foul play is at work and begins a clandestine investigation. She discovers that Powers was not the pillar of the community he was cracked up to be but, rather, a controlling abusive husband who died in questionable circumstances, and she suspects this may not be the first such case her company has settled.

As she delves deeper, innocent people begin to die and Kiara finds herself in dangerous territory. Torn between protecting her own family and uncovering whoever is behind the killings, she faces an impossible choice and will have to confront her greatest fears.

MY THOUGHTS

Rob Starr is an author that is new to me and so is, I believe, having a lead that is a fraud investigator so I thought I'd give it a go. 

Glad I did too, The First Widow was an absolute, edge of the seat belter. I wasn't 100% sure when I started but it quickly built up pace to become, as they say, un-put-downable. In Kiara Fox we have a tough and determined investigator who is pretty much put through the wringer by author Starr.

Action, dead bodies, fraud (obviously 🙄), The First Widow is cited on the front cover as 'THE BLOCKBUSTER THRILLER OF THE YEAR' and in this instance I'm going to agree with that statement.

My hope now is that Rob Starr is going to be able, if that is his plan, to build a series round Kiara Fox - I for one certainly want more.