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The Auntie Network: Widow's Biscuit
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: E.M.McConnell
Published: Mar 29 2026
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Grief is a powerful ingredient. Every widow has a secret. Some have a recipe.
When a respected headmaster dies quietly at home, there appears to be no crime to solve. No poison, no struggle, no unanswered medical questions. The case should close clean.
Detective James Holloway is assigned to community follow-up - a formality meant to reassure the widow and move everyone on. Margaret Collins is composed, efficient, and ready for things to be concluded. She does not ask how her husband died. Only how soon it will all be finished.
As James digs through paperwork, procedures, and old safeguarding files, he begins to notice something more disturbing than guilt: a system that handled concerns without ever stopping harm - and a woman who understood exactly how long it would take to do nothing.
Meanwhile, the Auntie Network watches from the edges. They do not defend the widow. And they do not condemn her. They are interested only in one question: is she finished, or is she dangerous?
And Audrey - calm, precise, and always in control - is paying close attention to James's answers.
Widow's Biscuit is a dark domestic noir about omission, respectability, and the thin line between restraint and complicity - where justice is not denied, but deferred, and violence is not committed, only permitted.
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