American Black Widow. Greg Olsen

A great story but I felt like I was on a snakes and ladders board of chronology.

The story moves backwards and forwards through different times with ease, but at times without a logical explanation.

The story starts with the death of an off duty firefighter in a house fire.

Then moves back to the 1970s and continues to move backwards and forwards

The wife of a preacher Sharon Nelson is never satisfied with what she has.

She’s the typical “the grass is greener” type. But sometimes the only way out of a relationship, or the only way she thinks she can make a clean break is for the husband, or boyfriend, to meet an unfortunate end.

Spread over decades, and different jurisdictions, this makes her crimes almost impossible to link.

But eventually she will slip up.

I am a huge Greg Olsen fan but I’m to sure about this book.

It was one of those stories where I finished it but in instalments. I left it and read other books, then went back to it.

For me that’s really unusual. I wouldn’t usually go back, but this story had enough for me to want to finish it, but didn’t have enough to keep me exclusively hooked.

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Author: nkadams999

An avid reader since I was young and have always found time for books through, two marriages (one still current), the raising of a beautiful daughter, who's now a lovely young woman, a short (5 year) career as a seaman, a long (30 year) career as a Firefighter- Officer/Arson Investigator, and latterly as a Lecturer, on Fire forensics and all things Fire related.

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