Thank you NetGalley and SOURCEBOOKS Landmark for the copy of Young Rich Widows. I was so disappointed when this book came out as audio only so I was excited to see it in print. This is a fun, campy, light thriller. I had a hard time keeping the characters and their families straight at first, so a cast of characters would have helped. If you’re looking for surprises and a quick, easy read, this is probably for you but don’t expect a thrilling plot.

Fun book all around, written by four famous women authors so what's not to like? After a violent plane crash at sea, the "young rich widows" gather at the big party without their partners. Some are happy, others are sad--but of course all for different reasons as they each have secrets that no one else knows about. And so secrets are revealed, cash is involved (and so is the mob), and there's tons of snarky humor which I loved! So enjoy (but maybe don't read on a plane)!
Thanks to NetGalley for this ARC!

There was no way I could tell that four incredible authors wrote this book. I found the writing style to be seamless. I loved the idea of four widows trying to bring their significant others‘s killer or killers to justice. I loved the twist and turns that were thrown in here in there. This was a very enjoyable book!

This was a bit of a slow build up, but I LOVED the way it turned out. As soon as I saw thriller set Providence in 1985, I knew there was no way I wasn’t reading this. It comes as no shock to me that one of the authors is from RI, because everything was accurate; the street names, the restaurants, the towns, I think the whole mall deal had to have been loosely based on the mall currently in Providence.

I’m not always a huge fan of books that heavily feature the mob, but it worked for me here! It took me a little while to come around to all four characters, but by the end I was totally on board. It could totally be because I’m RI born and raised, but I thoroughly enjoyed this.

This book was so much fun. At first I thought it was going to be four short stories by each of the four authors because while I've read novels from writing teams, it's never been for more than two authors.

Here each of the four writers have written chapters from one of the four widows (Justine, Camille, Krystle and Meredith) whose partners were each lawyers in a lawyer firm. The story is set in mob-run Providence in 1985 . Each of the women are very different but I came adore them all -- and spoiler while they start out at odds they naturally join forces to find missing millions and who killed their partners.

It's a fast-paced book, and a bit campy and silly too -- in a good way. I kept thinking this would be a great romp of a film. By the end I was really rooting for these ladies and their friendship and I hope they have more great adventures in store.

Also, the mystery itself has some good clues planted throughout, but there were still some terrific surprises and plot-twists.

I wanted to love this book, I really did. Not least because it features one of my favourite authors in the star-studded line-up that got together to write it. But it didn't come together too well.

Set in the 1980s, this is a story about big hair and shoulder pads, even bigger personalities, and a LOT of drama. Four women are left grieving their spouses - and in one case, somebody else's spouse! - after a mysterious small aircraft crash kills the four partners in a law firm.

To their horror, the four women, who do comprise a satisfyingly diverse group, find that their partners were involved in a real estate deal that has left their surviving spouses owing the not inconsiderable sum of FOUR million dollars to the mob.

The strength of the book lies in how successfully it does capture the flavour of the worst excesses of the 1980s - including the crimes against fashion. But the storyline felt overblown to the point of satire (perhaps that was intentional?), so it didn't really function that well as a thriller or a murder mystery. For anyone looking for a 1980s absurdist romp with a "mob and missing money" plot and decidedly larger than life characters, this could definitely work.

I’ve absolutely adored Layne Fargos book and have been craving another so I jumped at the chance to read her collab book with Vanessa Lillie, Kimberly Belle and Cate Holahan.

Unfortunately, I didn’t enjoy it at all. The characters all felt just over the top cartoonish. The dialogue felt cringey and the mystery just didn’t intrigue me.

I liked the premise of the four widows solving a mystery after their spouses deaths but I just didn’t like anything about the execution. I know others will eat this book up; it just personally wasn’t my cup of tea.

Thank you to NetGalley and SourceBooks for my ARC in exchange for my honest review.