
BPL · Book · 2025
The widow
John Grisham
Simon Latch is a lawyer in rural Virginia, making just enough to pay his bills while his marriage slowly falls apart. Then into his office walks Eleanor Barnett, an elderly widow in need of a new will. Apparently, her husband left her a small fortune, and no one knows about it. Once he hooks the richest client of his career, Simon works quietly to keep her wealth under the radar. But soon her story begins to crack. When she is hospitalized after a car accident, Simon realizes that nothing is as it seems, and he finds himself on trial for a crime he swears he didn't commit: murder. Simon knows he's innocent. But he also knows the circumstantial evidence is against him, and he could spend the rest of his life behind bars. To save himself, he must find the real killer..."--
- Demand pressureDemand pressure: composite score across the 12 tracked branches — rewards low availability, branches all out, recent drops, and (when exposed) public hold counts. Higher = harder to get borough-wide.
- 900
- Available
- 0/19
- Branches all out
- 10/10
- Public holdsPublic holds: BPL exposes 'people waiting' at the bib (record) level — one number per work for the entire 60+ branch BPL system, NOT just the 12 tracked branches. We capture the number when it's there. 'Not exposed' means BPL didn't expose it on this scrape — we never substitute zero for missing data.
- not exposed
ISBN 9780385548984
NYT Bestseller
Hardcover Fiction
- Weeks on list
- 23 weeks
- Peak rank
- #1
- reached Oct 25, 2025
- Last rank
- #15
- Apr 4, 2026
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Source: NYT Best Sellers. List membership is national, not Brooklyn-specific.
Current availability across the 12 tracked branches
| Branch | Available | Total | Holds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Ridge | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Bedford | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Brooklyn Heights | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Bushwick | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Crown Heights | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Flatbush | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Greenpoint | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Kings Highway | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Sunset Park | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Williamsburgh | 0 | 1 | 0 |
7-day movement
No movement in the last 7 days.
Recent movement
No availability changes detected in the last 7 days.