A Tangled Web

De: Bruce Bronstein

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

A young man undergoes emergency surgery and later bleeds to death while recuperating at home. The surgeon, who was having an affair with his patient’s wife, injects rat poison in the IV so that his patient would die at home. The man’s widow files a claim for death benefits with his insurance company. However, the insurer suspects that either she murdered her husband by allowing him to overdose on blood thinners or he committed suicide, and thus, denies the claim application. Ten years earlier, the insurer defended against a claim that was filed when the man’s mother was murdered in accordance with her instructions. To avoid paying off a second claim, the insurer hires a celebrated lawyer who previously opposed the insurer in the earlier case to defend against the widow’s lawsuit. When the corpse is exhumed, the autopsy reveals the existence of rat poison and blood thinners. The widow is charged in the murder of her husband and must endure a stressful criminal trial in addition to the civil hearing over the insurance claim. As police detectives and lawyers uncover more details about the widow’s secret past relationships, things become murkier as the number of potential suspects increases. In a climax that will keep the reader guessing the outcome until the final page, the author offers the reader a riveting story full of ironic twists and surprises.