This is a fabulous excerpt! I cannot wait to read the whole book. I am hooked and hunting down a full version ASAP.

Jeff Abbott has a good idea with the book An Ambush of Widows, but it needs some fine-tuning.

The details supporting the main idea are a bit muddled and hard to believe. For instance, the first widow mentioned, Kirsten North, suddenly receives a call that her husband has been killed. The call comes from her husband's cell phone. She googles recent Austin murders and sees that two bodies were found in a warehouse, one unidentified. She hops on a plane to Austin. She doesn't call the police. She doesn't call the phone company to see what tower the call is pinging from. She doesn't call family, friends, or help of any kind. She just gets in a plane, going to Austin on the off-chance that the unidentified body is her husband. Why wouldn't she call the Austin police and see if the body could be identified as her husband?

A hit man, upon departing his plane from Austin, sees Kirsten waiting for her flight. He decides to re-board the plane he just exited in order to go back to Austin, as he has been contracted to kill Kirsten. He ends up sitting next to her on the plane. As soon as her murder hit the news, it would be obvious to any witnesses aboard the plane that the two were seated in close proximity to one another, and the police would be notified. This hit man seems to be new to his job, or just bad at it.

The second widow, Flora, looks out the window of her suburban home and somehow sees the window of the penthouse her husband recently purchased. First of all, the penthouse could not be close enough to her home to see a window lit up, and secondly, she wouldn't be able to tell that it was a window in their specific penthouse. Instead of calling the police, this widow, too, decides to leave and investigate on her own, leaving her infant son with a family member and a neighbor. She does not, however, ask them to watch the child, or tell them where she is going.

The basic idea of this novel is a good one, but some details need work. As a realistic novel, the story must be believable in every way.

This is only an excerpt, a teaser if you will, because the writing grabbed me from the first paragraph, and I can’t wait to read the rest of their book.

I knew reading an exerpt would be a bad idea. Now i want to read it.. and i feel incomplete. I will definitly request it once the whole thing is available

Great start, but almost wish I hadn’t even got the excerpt, as it just makes me want to read it now. Starts with a bang, so I’m thinking it’ll be one I will enjoy greatly!

It was a little hard to review this because the download I guess was only the first 3 chapters. From what I read so far, Jeff Abbott dives right in at chapter 1. From the opening paragraph to the next, the beginning of the mystery unfolds right in front of you. I would right this off as something very easy and fast to read os far, and the writing style is simple enough that if you were someone who wanted to try getting into thriller or mystery, Abbott is a good place to start. Shout out to NetGalley for this little preview.

Loved it, cant wait to read the rest and give a full report. One of my favorite writers. Thanks so much

WoW. From what I just read. I sure hope I get approved for this one.
So dang good. Can't wait for it.