Lynda La Plante

Harry Rawlins had been masterminding raids and robberies for almost twenty years. The hijack of a security van in the Strand Underpass would bring the gang thousands - but the job went disastrously and fatally wrong. Harry always said that if anything ever happened to him Dolly would be all right: Joe and Terry would take over, the team would look after everyone. But when Harry got blown to bits, trapped in a blazing van, Joe and Terry went with him. Dolly had three options. She could give up, and hand over Harry's ledgers to the police. She could hand them over to a bunch of thugs. Or she - and the other widows - could take the business over ... and survive.

Widows

THE BASIS FOR STEVE MCQUEEN'S UPCOMING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, WIDOWS IS A FAST-PACED HEIST THRILLER WITH AN ALL FEMALE CAST YOU WON'T FORGET. Before PRIME SUSPECT there was WIDOWS . . . Facing life alone, they turned to crime together. Dolly Rawlins, Linda Pirelli and Shirley Miller are left devastated when their husbands are killed in a security van heist that goes disastrously wrong. When Dolly discovers her husband Harry's bank deposit box, containing a gun, money - and detailed plans for the hijack - she realises that she only has three options: 1. Give up and forget she ever found them; 2. Hand over Harry's ledgers to the police, or to the thugs that have been hassling her for information they think she has; 3. She and the other widows could carry out the robbery themselves Novices in the craft of crime, the three women make their preparations. Along the way they discover that Harry's plan required four people, not three. But only three bodies were discovered in the carnage of the original hijack - so who was the fourth man, and where is he now? Recruiting hooker Bella O'Reilly as their fourth, the widows are determined to execute their plan. Facing mounting pressure from DI Resnick, and local thugs Arnie and Tony Fisher, can they stick together and finish the job their husbands started . . .

Tiffany Robinson

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Widows kicks off with a botched armed truck robbery that leaves three men dead. The men leave behind their wives who have to deal with their sudden death. Dolly, the ring leaders wife discovers his ledgers that include names and plans for every crime he has committed and plans he had yet to execute. Included in the ledger is the plans that left him dead. Dolly decides that she wants to try her own hand at the robbery so she gathers the other wives and together they plan to succeed where their husbands left off while also dealing with the police and other criminals who want the ledgers so they can take over and will stop at nothing to get them. 
I like that this book focuses on a group of vastly different women who decide to turn to a life of crime. With these women being so different its very interesting to see how they interact and deal with working together. Most of the time it is very fast paced but there are some moments that drag on for a little bit and some of the conversations seem repetitive. The writing style was also not my favorite. A paragraph would be going one direction and then the next one the character was doing something completely different so it was a little jarring at times. 

I received an advance copy of this book.

Widows

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