📖 Blog Tour ~ The First Widow by Rob Starr

Just Once Publishing
29 August 2024

Kiara Fox #1

Over a hundred husbands dead.

One prisoner. Countless secrets.

The most horrifying case of Kiara Fox’s career . . .

Kiara Fox leads a seemingly ordinary life as a highly respected fraud investigator. With a loving husband and twin daughters, her world seems perfect. But when a life insurance claim involving a wealthy man named Martin Powers lands on her desk, she senses something is off.

Forced by her employer to pay the claim, Kiara discovers that Martin Powers’ folder has vanished. In a shocking twist, she finds the missing folder hidden within another investigator’s files – Michael Hall from the Bristol office. It’s identical to her own case, sparking her determination to uncover the truth.

As innocent people begin to die, she realises there’s more behind this than first meets the eye. Torn between protecting her own family and uncovering whoever is behind the killings, Kiara faces an impossible choice.

📖 My Review..

Kiara Fox is a successful fraud investigator and whilst extremely good at her job she does tend to get over involved in some of her more substantial cases, however, with huge sums of money being paid out Kiara knows that you can never be too careful. When one case in particular starts to ring alarm bells Kiara is soon on the hunt for what she perceives is a fraudulent insurance claim, little does she know that this is only the tip of a very big iceberg. The story moves along at a fast pace and as we get deeper into Kiara's investigation so the tension starts to mount to high and emotions are heightened in a story which grips from its intense opener, to the thrilling conclusion. 

I enjoyed getting to know Kiara Fox, the author describes her well so that the immersion into her business life, her family and those who seek to 'quieten' her is done with a fine eye for detail and a thrilling sense of adventure. The author writes well and controls a complicated plot with ease, all the characters are well drawn, some extremely unlikable and downright evil, but then that's all part the charm of this complicated thriller. With an almost overriding sense of doom, The First Widow is a great introduction to this feisty investigator who, should the ending be a clue, we may well get to see again in a further thrilling adventure.

About the Author

Rob Starr owns and runs SEICO Insurance & Mortgages since 1991 and has offices in Brighton, London and South Africa. His first book What The Tide Brings Back was published on 4th January 2022.

In 2008, he lost his father to cancer and set up a charity in his honour. His business covers all the running costs of the charity and as such his small team raises what they can from local events and gives it away as grants to Young People who simply need a chance to be the best that they can be and need someone to believe in them. So far, they have raised and given away over a Million Pounds to over 4000 young people. Rob is Chairman and the lead at the charity - www.starrtrust.org

Away from insurance, charities and writing, Rob loves a challenge. In 2012 he swam the English Channel. In 2013 he cycled up Le Mont Ventoux. Between 2014-2020 he did 21 Olympic Triathlons. In 2021 he completed two half Ironman Triathlons as well as his first full Ironman. And in 2022 he completed his 52×52 Challenge. This is 52 Olympic Triathlons in 52 consecutive weeks.

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