Borrowed in Brooklyn

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.
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ISBN 9780385548984

NYT Bestseller

Hardcover Fiction

Last appeared Apr 4, 2026
Weeks on list
23 weeks
Peak rank
#1
reached Oct 25, 2025
Last rank
#15
Apr 4, 2026

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Combined Print & E-Book Fiction· 15w · #1

Source: NYT Best Sellers. List membership is national, not Brooklyn-specific.

Current availability across the 12 tracked branches

BranchAvailableTotalHolds
Bay Ridge030
Bedford011
Brooklyn Heights031
Bushwick010
Crown Heights021
Flatbush011
Greenpoint020
Kings Highway031
Sunset Park021
Williamsburgh010
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