Book Review by Herminia Meñez Coben, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita from California State University of Sonoma
Title:The Newspaper Widow
Author: Cecilia Manguerrra Brainard
Publisher: University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2017, Beato Angelico Bldg., Espana, Manila, Philippines;
Available from Amazon in hard copy and in Kindle format
Number of pages: 234 pages
Softcover, $18.95 in the US
The Newspaper Widow, a fast-paced, multi-layered novel of romance and mystery, presents an international cast of characters: a Spanish friar; an ill-fated lawyer; an expatriate Frenchwoman and her gay friends, a Tagalog and a Catalan; an American doctor and researcher at the leper colony; and finally, the enterprising publisher widow of the novel’s title, Ines Maceda.