Widow's Walk Author:Robert B.Parker When 51 year old Nathan Smith, a once confirmed bachelor, is found in his bed with a hole in his head made by a .38 caliber slug, it's hard not to imagine Nathan's young bride as the one with her finger on the trigger. Even her lawyer thinks she is guilty. But given that Mary Smith is entitled to the best defense she can afford...and thanks to N... more »athan's millions, she can afford plenty...Spenser hires on to investigate Mary's bona fides. Mary's alibi is a bit on the flimsy side; she claims she watching t.v. in another room when the murder occurred. But the couple was seen fighting at a cocktail party earlier in the evening, and the proscecution has a witness who says Mary once tried to hire him to kill Nathan. What's more, she's too pretty, too made-up, too blonde, and she sleeps around...just the kind of person a jury loves to hate.« less