Books by Wendy Corsi Staub and Complete Book Reviews

Wendy Corsi Staub, Author Pinnacle Books $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7860-1424-8
Wendy Corsi Staub's She Loves Me Not details the domestic dramas of a single mother who has been targeted by a killer. Ever since Rose Larabee lost her husband and underwent heart transplant surgery, she's had troubles making ends meet. But now...
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Wendy Corsi Staub. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-68331-333-5
At the start of bestseller Corsi’s entertaining third mystery set in the real-life spiritualist community of Lily Dale, N.Y. (after 2016’s Something Buried, Something Blue), Bella Jordan, Valley View Manor’s innkeeper, witnesses a killer dump a...
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Wendy Corsi Staub. Crooked Lane, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-62953-772-6
Bestseller Staub’s charming second Lily Dale Mystery (after 2015’s Nine Lives) finds widowed Isabella Jordan and her five-year-old son, Max, settled in Lily Dale, N.Y., a spiritualist center. Her neighbors are eccentric but warmhearted, and Bella...
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Wendy Corsi Staub. Crooked Lane (crookedlanebooks.com), $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-62953-248-6
This sweet, romantically melancholic first in a new paranormal series from bestseller Staub (Nightwatcher) introduces newly widowed Isabella Jordan, who embarks on a road trip with her young son, Max, from Bedford, N.Y., to visit her hated mother-in-
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Wendy Corsi Staub. Harper, $7.99 mass market (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-222237-4
A killer who calls himself “Angel” torments his teenage targets through the clever use of social media in this disturbing thriller from bestseller Staub (Nightwatcher). Angel becomes part of their online lives while their parents remain unaware of...
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Wendi Corsi Staub. Harper, $7.99 mass market (344p) ISBN 978-0-06-207028-9
Despite the interesting idea of a serial killer operating in Manhattan immediately after the 9/11 terror attacks, bestseller Staub’s romantic suspense novel ends up doing little with such a dramatic backdrop for crimes that, though savage, have no...
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Wendy Corsi Staub. Avon, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-189508-1
At the outset of this violent, generic thriller from bestseller Staub, the third in a trilogy that began with Live to Tell and Scared to Death, a freak major earthquake hits Massachusetts, allowing an unnamed female convict to escape unscathed from...
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Wendy Corsi Staub, Author Berkley Trade Pub $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-425-16083-1
One of a trio of titles launching the College Life 101 series, this snappily written novel centers on an 18-year-old who leaves her upstate New York hometown (and four best friends, featured in other volumes) to start her freshman year at South...
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Wendy Corsi Staub, Author . Pinnacle $6.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-7860-1423-1
With this compelling gothic mystery, Staub (The Last to Know) puts a fresh spin on the haunted house formula. Three years after the drowning of his live-in girlfriend, Kristin, Paine Landry is forced to return to Lily Dale, N.Y., a gated resort...
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Wendy Corsi Staub, Avon, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-189507-4
Staub (Live to Tell) explores the conflict every parent feels between reasonable care for the safety of their children and paranoia in this compelling, well-crafted suspense novel. Elsa Cavalon, who's trying to rebuild her life in Groton, Conn., 15...
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Wendy Corsi Staub, Author Avon $7.99 (390p) ISBN 978-0-06-189506-7
Staub (Dead Before Dark ) follows an innocuous stuffed animal into a widening spiral of intrigue in this absorbing series launch. Newly single mom Lauren Walsh asks her ex, Nick, to look for their daughter’s toy rabbit in the lost and found at
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Wendy Corsi Staub, Author . Zebra $6.99 (473p) ISBN 978-1-4201-0132-4
In this intense follow-up to 2008’s Dying Breath , just as self-described psychic detective Lucinda Sloan is helpless to stop a monomaniacal serial killer, readers will be helpless to stop turning pages until the end. From the moment the...
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Wendy Corsi Staub, Author . Walker & Co. $15.95 (228p) ISBN 978-0-8027-9654-7
Staub (the College Life 101 series) returns to the scene of her bestselling adult thriller In the Blink of an Eye for the slick opener of the Lily Dale series. Readers meet Calla the summer before her senior year of high school as she attends her...
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Wendy Corsi Staub, Author . Zebra $6.99 (476p) ISBN 978-0-8217-7972-9
In Staub's latest suspense novel (following last year's bestseller The Final Victim ), four Massachusetts sorority sisters make a pact following the accidental death of their sorority sister, Rachel Lorant, on her birthday; together, they...
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Wendy Corsi Staub, Author . Pinnacle $6.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7860-1641-9
Overburdened by a full cast of characters and an unnecessary amount of detail, this new suspense novel from Corsi Staub (after She Loves Me Not ) starts out agonizingly slow, but it manages to keep readers in the dark about the killer's identity
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Wendy Corsi Staub, Author, Staub, Author, Kensington, Producer Kensington Publishing Corporation $23 (336p) ISBN 978-1-57566-447-7
Survivors of a long-ago crime in upstate New York relive the terror when teenage girls start disappearing once again in this suspense novel from the prolific Staub (Fade to Black). After Rory Connolly's father dies, she goes home to Lake Charlotte,...
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Lisa Jackson, Author, Beverly Barton, Author, Wendy Corsi Staub, Author . Zebra $7.99 (479p) ISBN 978-0-8217-7576-9
Despite individual success in the field of suspense, the first collaboration of Jackson (Fatal Burn ), Staub (The Final Victim ) and Barton (Dangerous Deception ) is likely to disappoint their fans. The plot line will ring familiar to slasher movie...
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Wendy Corsi Staub. Morrow, $16.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-308460-5
This chilling domestic thriller from bestseller Staub (The Black Widow) opens with the arrival of Nora and Keith Howell and their daughters, 14-year-old Piper and 17-year-old Stacey, in Brooklyn from L.A. Nora and Keith hope to piece their marriage...
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Wendy Corsi Staub. Morrow, $18.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-323531-1
Staub (The Other Family) underwhelms in this standalone thriller centered on the fallout from a shared lottery jackpot. Leila, J.J., and Molly, who met as freshmen at Northwestern University and bonded when they learned they all had September...
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Wendy Corsi Staub. Thomas & Mercer, $16.99 trade paper (388p) ISBN 978-1-6625-2381-6
Staub (Windfall) examines the corrosive power of shared secrets in this devilish thriller. Childhood friends Midge Kennedy, Kelly Barrow, Talia Shaw, and Caroline Winterfield grew up together in the hollowed-out town of Mulberry Bay, N.Y., united by
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Wendy Corsi Staub. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5016-4
In Staub’s good-natured fourth Lily Dale mystery (after 2017’s Dead of Winter), widow Bella Jordan, the manager of Valley View Manor, a guesthouse in Lily Dale, N.Y., “the world’s largest center for the religion of Spiritualism,” has to deal with...
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Wendy Corsi Staub. Severn, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5017-1
The disappearance of a visitor to Lily Dale, N.Y., home of psychics, mystics, and mediums drives Staub’s busy fifth Lily Dale mystery (after 2021’s Pros and Cons). On Juneteenth, widow Bella Jordan, Valley View Guesthouse’s manager, is startled by a
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