Blake Nelson has been killed by his wife - the question is which one?!

Set in Utah, the story is told by Blake’s 3 wives, Rachel, Emily and Tina.

I enjoyed the way the author explored polygamous marriage within the Mormon church and the background story of each wife, especially Rachel who was brought up in a religious cult.

The chapters were short and snappy and kept me guessing until the end. I wish I could award half marks as I’d give it a 3.5!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

A novel full of tension and surprises. Three women, all married to Blake come with lots of baggage. It’s a captivating, unputdownable read to unravel who killed Blake and why.

I really enjoyed this one. I was super intrigued by the concept and found the whole thing fun and exciting. The three different characters of the wives were well done and their character development, as well as that of Blake, made it an interesting read. Is it realistic or a true representation of the religion?probably not. Did I enjoy it as much as those dreadful TLC documentaries?Absolutely! A guilty please if ever there was one!

I found this book both enlightening but confusing at the same time. Here we have three woman, all married to the same man in a Mormon community. When their husband is found dead all three must rally round to defend themselves. This wasn’t a gripping book for me, it took a while to get my head around this way of life, so different from the norm we know.

I still can’t make up my mind about this book.
Rachel, Emily and Tina live in a Mormon community and are all married to Blake. When Blake is found dead, suspicion falls on the three of them and they have to cooperate to figure out who killed him. The book is told from each of the wives perspective.
It had good premise but it fell flat for me. I was initially intrigued by their relationship but once the intrigue was gone the story wasn’t good enough to keep my interest in the book.
Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and the author for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I'm in two minds about this book. To begin with I thought it was fascinating. It is set in Utah in a Mormon community. Rachel , Emily and Tina are all married to Blake. They don't get on but when Blake is found murdered and suspicion falls on each of them in turn they start to cooperate to try to find out who actually killed him. The story is told from their three points of view.

I was much more interested in the day to day life of a polygamous relationship than I was in the murder side to the story and feel that it would have been much better to have concentrated on this. I also found the very short chapters irritating and kept having to go back and check which wife's narrative I was reading. The formatting didn't help in this respect. Overall it was an interesting premise but let down by a lot of repetition. I wondered whether the ARC had been edited and proofread as there were numerous errors. I also found the ending a bit sentimental and unrealistic.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the ARC.

A very original book with an unusual setting. When a dead body is found in the harsh wilderness of Utah, it turns out that the victim was a Latter Day Saint with three 'wives'. Told from the viewpoint of each wife, all totally different from one another and with very little love lost, we seek to find out which wife was the killer. Twisty and full of turns, this book had me intrigued.

I found this book a little slow. It took me a few chapters to get into it. Everything felt really drawn out and I don't think it's a story that will stick with me.

My thanks to the Author publishers and NetGalley for providing me with a Kindle version of this book to read and honestly review.
A man is dead either by his own hand or his wife, but the problem for the police is which wife, the deceased had three. Thus begins a clever imaginative whodunit, a well written atmospheric engaging story. With alternate chapters of events before and after his death, seen differently through the eyes of the three women.
Recommended.

Very peculiar book. I couldn’t decide if I enjoyed it or not. Made me google several things regarding the Mormon way of life .

Oh my, oh, my!

Loved this clever, thought provoking, brilliantly plotted book and the twist at the end is just brilliant!
I love the themes of revenge and the constant guessing the author made me do as I read this. It was an unputdownable, brilliantly written, juicy novel that I whizzed through in two sittings. The pace, the characters, the plot, the story are great!
This book is like a breath of fresh air from all of the me-too psychological thrillers/crime novels out there.

Would highly recommend.

Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the early arc!

An excellent novel. Well written, well drawn plot. Kept me guessing till the end. A real page turner. Couldn’t put it down. Loved it

When I first started reading Black Widows, I wasn’t sure the book was for me. I’m not sure if it was the way it was written or the language used. However I stuck with it and soon found myself totally engrossed. The setting follows Rachel, Emily and Tina. Rachel is the first wife of Blake Nelson. Emily and Tina are sister-wives. Polygamist Blake is dead and they say his wife killed him, but which one? Not only are they suspect to the police, but also each other. The. Ok explores the complex relationship they have and also the possibility of a cult. I found this book to be gripping and intriguing and would rate it 3.5 stars. Thank you to NetGalley, Orion Publishing Group and the author for the chance to review.

I have just spent about five days with Rachel, Tina, and Emily. The three of them are Mormons living in a polygamous marriage, sister wives. They live on the edge of Salt lake city, in the middle of desert, off grid. No one knows their location, no one can get to them. All three have a traumatic past, all three hate each other, all three are are the main suspects in the murder of their husband...An excellent tale of love, religion, abuse, healing, and sisterhood.. The characters are all different, and all have depth of emotion which encourages the reader to care about what happens to them. This story takes the reader on a journey into a lesser known community...Read it!

Well this book is one that I have been completely and utterly unwilling but also unable to put down. Quinn has pulled me into this one very quickly and I have enjoyed devouring page after page.

This is a book which is completely unique to anything I've read previously. I love that the author has taken on themes that we don't often see in many books.

This book has it all, tension, suspense, rivalry, religious group and cults. It is definitely an engaging and unique read. I have really liked the mix of characters this book has contained. I totally understand the rivalry and tension between the wives.

The twist towards the end has shocked me, I'm not sure what I was expecting but I have definitely been left speechless by this one. This is my first read by this author, but it definitely won't be the last.

I have adored this book. It is a great read and I have been completely pulled in. A definite five star read and one I highly recommend.

I really got into this book after a slightly slow start. Not that a book that begins with a brutal murder can REALLY be called slow. Set in Utah in the Latter Day Saints Community, this is thriller has a good hook with the polygamous marriage at the heart of the story. The husband has been murdered on his remote homestead with his three wives the obvious suspects. What makes this book so engaging is the exploration of the three wives and their very different paths to marriage. They're all flawed characters but we come to understand them, as indeed they come to understand each other. What happens next is the police investigation with all the discoveries the detectives make as well as some amateur sleuthing by Tina, one of the wives. A bit of a nod to Thelma and Louise here, with lots of twists and turns, I was never quite sure how it was going to end. Very satisfying. Entertaining hokum, a good way to pass the time.

A man is murdered and his three wives have a motive. He is part of a fundamentalist Mormon faith that allows poligamy which is frowned on by most Mormons and against the law. So Blake and his wives live on a remote ranch.
The story begins slowly with it being told by each wife in turn. Each wife has a secretive past and at first I wasn't sure if I would be able to care about any of them. Gradually I was hooked. Along the way, I learned more about the Mormon faith (totally different to my ethos), and by the end really cared about them.
So many twists right to the end.

One dead man, three wives, who is responsible? While this was a very interesting look into the world of the Mormon religion and Polygamy it didn’t blow me away. I found it very slow to start and it wasn’t until half way through that it skipped up a gear for me. That said the characterisation of the three wives, the way their past’s influenced their present and the simple whodunnit makes it an enjoyable if not epic read

This book is really good. It is well plotted with plenty of suspense and twists and turns along the way that’ll leave you guessing until the end. The story is told through three different perspectives, the wives of the murdered man. Once I got to know the characters I felt I could hear their individual voices and the story flowed well between the characters. I really enjoyed the setting and context of the story as it was completely different to anything I had read about before. I think it deals with the difficult themes of abuse and religion sympathetically.

I enjoyed this read. I did find it a little slow at the start but around the halfway mark I felt it had hit its stride and proceeded along at a good, steady pace, some readers may find this a little late. I often find with books of this genre that the author is so focussed on delivering those heart-stopping, pulse-racing moments or a big twist, that the end of the book is sped through or even ends abruptly. This book has those moments but is not rushed and that made a real difference to my reading experience. I also did not find the book too predictable as sometimes occurs in this genre. The Mormon aspect made this book original and stand out from others.

The chapters are generally quite short, which I like as a reader as I feel it makes the book easier to pick up and put down (although I barely put it down near the end). Some of the chapters could have been made into one though, there seemed no reason for breaking them up at those points, the narrator of the chapter was the same and the story continued on anyway. The short chapters and the narrator changing each time could leave me feeling slightly confused and having to go back to double-check who was narrating, it could also make the timeline feel slightly off. At some points, this lead to the writing being somewhat chaotic with all the chopping and changing.

Overall it is a good read and I believe fans of this genre will enjoy its originality.

My thanks go to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book which kept me guessing until the end.

3.5 stars