{"id":1399,"date":"2026-09-15T11:42:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2026-09-15T11:42:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:42:32","slug":"john-grisham-the-widow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/?p=1399","title":{"rendered":"John Grisham ~ The Widow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F1399&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F1399&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1400\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/thewidow-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/thewidow-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/thewidow.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Started on 8\/26\/26.\u00a0 Haven&#8217;t read John in a while.<br \/>\nFinished on 9\/15\/26.\u00a0 20 days.<\/p>\n<p>It was a long book.\u00a0 Characters were well written and you really did get the sense that Latch was wrongly convicted.<br \/>\nChapters were on the long side for me.\u00a0 John has a way of writing that keeps your interest but once you get to the &#8220;meat&#8221; of the book you don&#8217;t want to put it down.<\/p>\n<p>Elenor walks into Latch&#8217;s office and asks for a will.\u00a0 Tells him she&#8217;s rich beyond belief.\u00a0 He draws the will up and starts ingratiating her.\u00a0 She tells him she has no family.\u00a0 The dollar signs start rolling in his eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Greed takes over.\u00a0 Elenor gets in a car accident and ends up in the hospital.\u00a0 She comes down with a mysterious case of pnuemonia and ends up passing away.\u00a0 The will makes Latch look guilty.\u00a0 He gets arrested, tried and convicted of murder.<\/p>\n<p>He has to find the real killer and get his name cleared.<\/p>\n<p>Good book.\u00a0 Giving it an 8\/10 just because it was so long.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started on 8\/26\/26.\u00a0 Haven&#8217;t read John in a while. Finished on 9\/15\/26.\u00a0 20 days. It was a long book.\u00a0 Characters were well written and you really did get the sense that Latch was wrongly convicted. Chapters were on the long side for me.\u00a0 John has a way of writing that keeps your interest but once &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/?p=1399\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Grisham ~ The Widow&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mattsbookreview","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.mrice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}