Fiona Barton's novel The Widow is set to be one of the most exciting debuts of 2016, released in February by Transworld.

Following in the book industry's recent trend of domestic psychological thrillers, The Widow is a true standout with its compelling characters, haunting plot and realistic details. Cambridge-born Barton uses her past as a journalist to piece together a book that's an intensely readable and atmospheric study of human nature and the media, following the story of Jean and her life before and after her husband's death. The novel was acquired in a hotly contested auction in early 2015, and since then it's been shortlisted for the Richard & Judy Search For A Bestseller competition, along with receiving rave reviews from numerous book bloggers. The Widow's set to follow in the footsteps of Gone Girl, The Girl On The Train and Before I Go To Sleep as a modern thriller classic with an page-turning mystery led by an unreliable narrator to an unpredictable end.