Ever hear a killer rumor?It seemed like a fun thing for Cathy, Derrick, and Travis to do: Start a rumor and follow it. Like that grade-school game "telephone." Maybe someone's feelings would get hurt.No big deal.No one was supposed to end up in jail. No one was supposed to die.But in the real world, sometimes there's a fine line between the sting of truth and the damage of...gossip.

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Literature & Fiction

Staub, Wendy Corsi

Genre Fiction

HarperEntertainment

On her seventeenth birthday, a handsome ghost appears to Melissa, claiming to be her protector and offering her love, but she must now choose between this newcomer and her devoted boyfriend, Tripp. Original.

Summer Lightning

Teen & Young Adult

Harpercollins

“Wendy Corsi Staub’s Live To Tell is an incredible, fast-paced story of political intrigue, family crises, and nail-biting suspense. I couldn’t put it down.” —#1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson
USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub takes thriller writing to a new level with Live to Tell. The raves reviews keep pouring in for this spellbinding and truly frightening tale of a family torn apart by secrets and stalked by a cold-blooded predator. Bestselling author Brenda Novak calls it, “clever, well-written and riveting. Wendy Corsi Staub is a master storyteller!” While suspense superstar Lee Childs, whose Jack Reacher thrillers continually top the bestseller charts, calls Live to Tell, “Solid gold suspense….This one is a wild ride.”

Live to Tell

United States

William Morrow Paperbacks

“Solid Gold Suspense!”
—Lee Child
The phenomenal New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub returns with Scared to Death, a masterwork of spine-tingling suspense that boldly reaffirms her position among Lisa Jackson, Lisa Gardner, Tami Hoag, and other premier masters of the contemporary thriller. In fact, Lisa Jackson herself promises, “You’ll love Wendy Corsi Staub.” Even if you have yet to experience the delicious chills of her previous dark masterwork, Live to Tell, we guarantee that this pulse-racing story of two mothers who must combat their deepest terrors to protect their endangered children will leave you breathless and…Scared to Death!

Scared to Death

“If you like Mary Higgins Clark, you’ll love Wendy Corsi Staub.” —Lisa Jackson
“Wendy Corsi Staub is a master storyteller!” —Brenda Novak
“Once Staub’s brilliant characterizations and top-notch narrative skills grab hold, they don’t let go.” —Publishers Weekly
 Superstar thriller writer Lee Child calls the novels of Wendy Corsi Staub, “Solid gold suspense,” and readers who dig into Hell to Pay will discover they’ve hit the mother lode. The third book in Staub’s exceptional suspense trilogy—which she began with the Mary Higgins Clark Award-nominated Live to Tell, and continued with Scared to Death, winner of the Westchester Library Associations Washington Irving Book Award—Hell to Pay revisits two married survivors of an unspeakable childhood nightmare fifteen years later, whose lives are shattered once again by dark secrets and a terrible vengeance unleashed by an unexpected Act of God. Devoted Lisa Jackson and Lisa Gardner fans who have yet to experience the thrilling suspense fiction of Wendy Corsi Staub…now is the time!

Hell to Pay

“If you like Mary Higgins Clark, you’ll love Wendy Corsi Staub.” —Lisa Jackson, bestselling author of Devious
One of the most exciting of the new breed of thriller and suspense writers, Wendy Corsi Staub asks, “Are you ever truly safe...even in your own home?” With Nightwatcher, the acclaimed, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Hell to Pay delivers a ripped-from-the-headlines masterwork of suspense, the first book in an electrifying new series. Intense, powerful, and refreshingly original, Nightwatcher returns to the site of America’s worst national nightmare—New York City on September 11, 2001—as a serial killer, plying his bloody trade in the chaos following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, operates unnoticed by everyone…except for one frightened woman who has seen his face. Author Lee Child has called her work, “solid gold suspense,” and any reader who’s ever stayed up late, devouring the novels of Lisa Jackson and Lisa Gardner with every light on in the house, should prepare to lose even more sleep over Wendy Corsi Staub’s Nightwatcher.

Nightwatcher

Harper

“If you like Mary Higgins Clark, you’ll love Wendy Corsi Staub!” —#1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson
Following on the heels of her gripping and sensational thriller, Nightwatcher, New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub takes suspense to a whole new level with Sleepwalker. The second book in the remarkable series that began in the chaos and horror of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City, Staub’s Sleepwalker picks up the story ten years later—when Allison MacKenna, who barely escaped death on that terrible day at the hands of a serial killer, realizes that the nightmare is not over…and it may be closer to home than she ever imagined. This is top-tier suspense fiction that fans of Lisa Gardner and Lisa Jackson won’t be able to put down.

Sleepwalker

Shadowkiller

From the New York Times bestselling author comes a novel of suspense so terrifying it may make you afraid of the dark . . .
Allison Taylor MacKenna feels as though she'sawakened at last from a ten-year-long nightmare.But her darkest hour has yet to come . . .
Nestled in the warm, domestic cocoon of loving husbandand family, Allison finally feels safe—unaware that astranger's brutal murder on a Caribbean island is the first step in an intricate plan to destroy everything in her life.
For seasoned NYPD Detective Rocky Manzillo, the signs are clear that something terrible has emerged from the shadows:a murder victim left without a face and a faded photograph that yields a startling connection.
Now, as Allison's murky memoriesof a troubled childhood creep back to light, a cunning predator who shares her history prepares toenact a horrifying retribution—and won't stop killing untilAllison faces a shocking truth . . .and pays the ultimate price.

In New York Times bestselling authorWendy Corsi Staub's electrifying new thriller,a mother races to save her daughter beforeher darkest nightmare comes true. 
Sacred Sisters Catholic girls' school has hardly changed since Jen Archer was a student. Jen hoped her older daughter would thrive here. Instead, shy, studious Carley becomes the target of vicious bullies. But the real danger at Sacred Sisters goes much deeper.
The only person Carley can talk to is "Angel," a kindred spirit she met online. Carley tells Angel everything—about her younger sister, about school, about the sudden death of her former best friend. Angel is her lifeline. And Angel is closer than she knows.
When another schoolgirl is found dead, Jen's unease grows. There are too many coincidences, too many links to her past. Every instinct tells her that Carley is the next target. For someone is intent on punishing the guilty, teaching the ultimate lesson in how to fear . . . and how to die.

The Good Sister

In New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub's new thriller, one woman finds herself in the crosshairs of a twisted predator who might just be masked behind a familiar screen name . . .
During the darkest period of her life, Landry Wells found solace in a group of bloggers who had been in her shoes and lived to tell the tale. She's shared things with her online friends that even her husband and children didn't know. Things that now, looking back, make her uneasy.
One of the bloggers is dead, victim of a random crime—or was it? Did she trust too easily; reveal too much? At the funeral a thousand miles from home, Landry is about to come face to face at last with the others. These women are her closest confidantes in the world: they understand her; they know everything about her—and one of them might be a cold-blooded killer . . .

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