Desperate Deadly Widows

The widows are back! Big hair and bigger lies collide in the highly anticipated follow-up to Young Rich Widows, where nothing’s more dangerous than a widow with nothing left to lose.

Set in neon-drenched Providence, Rhode Island, circa 1987, just two years after a plane carrying four mafia-affiliated law-firm partners exploded over the Atlantic along with the cushy lives of their once wealthy wives. Now, Krystle fights to keep their fallen law firm afloat. Justine hustles as a lawyer-in-training. Meredith owns and operates the strip club where she once danced. And Camille orchestrates honey-pot schemes for scorned women–until one of her arrangements goes terribly wrong, and she becomes implicated in the debauched Mayor Tom’s mysterious murder in the champagne room. With everything on the line, the widows must join forces once more. But as the conspiracy unravels beyond the mayor's demise, their search for justice pits first wife against second wife and widow against widow. With the widows’ fragile bond now tested, will the women cement their friendships, or is loyalty a luxury they just can’t afford?

In this thrilling expansion of the Widows universe, brimming with sloshed champagne, smeared lipstick, and lethal secrets, Desperate Deadly Widows unfolds as an edge-of-your-seat thriller where desperation wears stilettos, trust is a poker chip, and redemption comes at the cost of everything you thought you knew.

Review

"A thoroughly entertaining read."--Booklist

"An '80s-homage noir that readers of gritty mysteries will enjoy."--Library Journal

"Fans of the first novel will eat this up"--Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Vanessa Lillie (Author) VANESSA LILLIE is the author of Little Voices, For the Best, and Blood Sisters Layne Fargo (Author) LAYNE FARGO is the author of the thriller novels Temper and They Never Learn, and she co-created, co-hosts, and produces the podcast UNLIKEABLE FEMALE CHARACTERS on Lit Hub Radio Cate Holahan (Author) CATE HOLAHAN is the USA Today Bestselling author of novels such as Her Three Lives. Kimberly Belle (Author) KIMBERLY BELLE is the USA Today and internationally bestselling author of eight novels, including The Personal Assistant, The Marriage Lie, and The Paris Widow.