A Different Kind of Mystery/Detective Novel Shortlisted for the Inaugural Cirilo F. Bautista Prize Finalist for the 37th National Book Award in the Philippines Filipina American author Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's novel, THE NEWSPAPER WIDOW, is a literary mystery set in the Philippines in 1909, shortly after the Spaniards lost to the Americans, and the Americans occupied the Philippines. The widow Ines and her friend...