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Desperate Deadly Widows

Written by: Kimberly Belle, Layne Fargo, Cate Holahan, Vanessa Lillie
Narrated by: Dina Pearlman, Karissa Vacker, Helen Laser, Ariel Blake
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Publisher's Summary

The widows are back! Big hair and bigger lies collide in the highly anticipated follow-up to Audible’s best-selling Young Rich Widows, where nothing’s more dangerous than a widow with nothing left to lose.

Set in neon-drenched Providence, Rhode Island, circa 1987, just two years after a plane carrying four mafia-affiliated law-firm partners exploded over the Atlantic along with the cushy lives of their once wealthy wives. Now, Krystle fights to keep their fallen law firm afloat. Justine hustles as a lawyer-in-training. Meredith owns and operates the strip club where she once danced. And Camille orchestrates honey-pot schemes for scorned women–until one of her arrangements goes terribly wrong, and she becomes implicated in the debauched Mayor Tom’s mysterious murder in the champagne room. With everything on the line, the widows must join forces once more. But as the conspiracy unravels beyond the mayor's demise, their search for justice pits first wife against second wife and widow against widow. With the widows’ fragile bond now tested, will the women cement their friendships, or is loyalty a luxury they just can’t afford?

In this thrilling expansion of the Widows universe, brimming with sloshed champagne, smeared lipstick, and lethal secrets, Desperate Deadly Widows unfolds as an edge-of-your-seat thriller where desperation wears stilettos, trust is a poker chip, and redemption comes at the cost of everything you thought you knew.

©2023 Kimberly Belle, Layne Fargo, Cate Holahan and Vanessa Lillie (P)2024 Audible Originals, LLC.
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About the Creator

Kimberly Belle is a USA Today and internationally bestselling author with over one million copies sold worldwide, with titles including The Paris Widow, The Marriage Lie, a Goodreads Choice Awards semifinalist for Best Mystery & Thriller, and the coauthored #1 Audible Original Young Rich Widows. Kimberly’s novels have been optioned for film and television and selected by LibraryReads and Amazon and Apple Books Editors as Best Books of the Month, and the International Thriller Writers as nominee for Best Book of the Year. She divides her time between Atlanta and Amsterdam.

About the Creator

Layne Fargo writes dark, dramatic stories that support women’s rights—and also women’s wrongs. She’s the author of the thrillers They Never Learn and Temper, and her women’s fiction debut, The Favorites, will be published by Random House in January 2025. She lives in Chicago with her partner and their pets.

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Cate Holahan is the USA Today bestselling author of The Widower’s Wife and other suspense novels, including most recently The Darkness of Others. Her work has been translated into multiple languages and optioned for film and TV, as well as been selections of the Book of the Month Club, Good Morning America’s book club, and Kirkus’ Best Books of the Year. A biracial author of Jamaican and Irish descent, Cate is a member of Crime Writers of Color and Sisters in Crime.

About the Creator

Vanessa Lillie is the USA Today bestselling author of Blood Sisters, which was a Target Book Club pick and GMA Book Club Buzz Pick, as well as a best mystery of the year from the Washington Post, Amazon editors, and Reader’s Digest. Her other bestselling thrillers are Little Voices, For the Best and she’s the creator and coauthor of the Young Rich Widows series set in Providence, RI, where she lives. Originally from Miami, Oklahoma, she is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.

About the Performer

Dina Pearlman was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, and attended Carnegie Mellon University. Based in New York City, this actress, stand-up comic, and Audie-nominated narrator of more than 300 audiobooks is best known for her appearances on Sex and the City and several Spike Lee films, most notably Bamboozled. Recently, Dina has appeared in HBO's Bad Education; Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade; Harlem on Amazon; and The Good Fight season 5 as lawsuit-averse rule-follower Katherine from Human Resources.

About the Performer

Karissa Vacker’s audiobook narration garnered an Audie Award nomination for the thriller Freefall. She is a proud recipient of many AudioFile Earphones Awards and is also a SOVAS Award-winning narrator. She is a classically trained actor with credits from major regional theaters and also enjoys a career in film and TV. Some credits include NCIS, Castle, How I Met Your Mother, and Chuck. She excels at narrating YA fiction, women's fiction, and suspense/thrillers.

About the Performer

Helen Laser is an NYC-based voice actor and artist. Helen narrates for Audible, Apple News+, Penguin Random House, and is the voice of Annie's Homegrown. She has appeared on television, in award-winning films that have graced the festival circuit worldwide, and in various stage performances. She is a member of SAG-AFTRA, a published writer, appreciator of all things spooky, and likes to paint, and plays various instruments including autoharp, accordion, ukulele, and clarinet.

About the Performer

Ariel Neema Blake is a Black and Guyanese (American) theater artist, teacher, abolitionist, and birth keeper based in Flatbush, Brooklyn (Lenapehoking). She is deeply curious about the ways we heal ourselves and our communities … the subtle power in noticing one’s breath/breadth. She is a proud company member of The Upstart Creatures, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to creating [meta]physical feasts that combine theater and food. Her voice can also be heard narrating An Abolitionist’s Handbook by Patrisse Cullors and Raven Leilani’s Luster, among other titles.

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The deadly widows books and their authors are gems not nearly celebrated enough by the literary community. The writing is smart and compelling, both teaching and captivating you, and the characters are authentic, relatable, and multidimensional. Fantastic story lines too. These authors are true talents.

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