Widow's Walk

 

Wido’s Walk, is the third book in a series, The Martha’s Vineyard Murders by Raemi A. Ray. I’ve read and reviewed the first two novels, and you can see those reviews in this blog. I continue to give high praise to the author. This story took a bit longer to grab me because Ms. Ray took enough time to fully develop the characters, which turned out to be quite necessary given the nature of the conclusion. I did not figure out who the ultimate villain was until the very end when the author revealed it. The story involved some of the people that we’ve learned about in the prior two novels, as well as a group of new characters that helped flesh out this new story.

 As occurred in the first two books, the British Lawyer Kyra Gibson found herself on the island of Martha’s Vineyard as the result of the murder of her father from whom she had long been estranged. Her law firm in England had been hired to deal with the sale of a business whose owners lived in the US, so rather than have a carefree vacation, Kyra found herself on Chappaquiddick, the neighboring island of Martha’s Vineyard, with all the principals of the sale of the valuable business. Some of those people were decidedly unpleasant. A huge estate had been rented for those people to close the deal during a weekend together.  There were also locals involved since servants were needed on the property, and Kyra already had a history with some of them, a history which was very troublesome. Just to add fuel to the evolving mystery, a massive storm struck the island causing the power to go out. They lost the internet and all means of communication with the outside world. They had no means to communicate with the police when the murders started to occur.

 

The closing sections of this story were fantastic – could not put it down. This series deserves my strong recommendation. You won’t be disappointed.