Wendy Corsi Staub
1) Nightwatcher
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Immediately after the September 11 attacks on New York City, Allison Taylor, James MacKenna, and homicide detective Rocky Manzillo are drawn together by a serial killer called "The Nightwatcher" who has his own terrifying agenda.
2) Sleepwalker
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When someone starts savagely murdering women near her home, Allison Taylor MacKenna, a survivor of another serial killer, finds her life in danger once again, and worries that her husband, Mack, may be the guilty party.
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2015.
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After the death of her husband, Bella Jordan and her son need a fresh start. But on their way to stay with family in Chicago, they stop in Lily Dale, New York, and a storm forces them to spend the night.Brimming with kooky psychics and mediums, Lily Dale is just the kind of quirky little town Bella's late husband always talked about settling down in. So when the local hotelier, Leona, passes away, Bella agrees to step in and help temporarily. The...
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2016.
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After agreeing to stay in Lily Dale through the winter as caretakers of the Valley View Guesthouse and its feline residents, widowed mom Bella Jordan and her son Max are looking forward to the peaceful off-season after a hectic summer. That is until the medium next door, Odelia Lauder, recruits Bella to host a destination wedding for the world's most petulant bride, Johneen Maynard, a friend of Odelia's granddaughter. Things take an even more stressful...
5) Dying breath
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A SEASIDE RETREAT . . .
It's summer on the Jersey Shore. Children play on the beach. Husbands are off working in the city. And the surf echoes in the night. Here, in this perfect place, a serial killer has no worries in the world—except choosing the next victim . . .
HAS JUST BECOME . . .
Cam Hastings has come to Long Beach Island with her teenage daughter and the hope that maybe she can save her failed...
It's summer on the Jersey Shore. Children play on the beach. Husbands are off working in the city. And the surf echoes in the night. Here, in this perfect place, a serial killer has no worries in the world—except choosing the next victim . . .
HAS JUST BECOME . . .
Cam Hastings has come to Long Beach Island with her teenage daughter and the hope that maybe she can save her failed...
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Zebra Books
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2009
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WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN . . .
The Night Watchman is ready to kill—again. After thirty-five years in prison, he is free to commit the same twisted atrocities that once made him as notorious as the Zodiac Killer and Jack the Ripper. Now, at last, his moment has come . . .
THE NIGHTMARE BEGINS . . .
For renowned psychic Lucinda Sloan, fame is a double-edged sword. Through her television appearances,...
The Night Watchman is ready to kill—again. After thirty-five years in prison, he is free to commit the same twisted atrocities that once made him as notorious as the Zodiac Killer and Jack the Ripper. Now, at last, his moment has come . . .
THE NIGHTMARE BEGINS . . .
For renowned psychic Lucinda Sloan, fame is a double-edged sword. Through her television appearances,...
7) Don't Scream
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Zebra Books
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2013
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A secret from the past torments a group of former sorority sisters as they face a mysterious killer in this "taut and unpredictable" suspense novel (Publishers Weekly).
In a remote, heavily wooded area near the Berkshires of Massachusetts, Rachel Lorant died on her birthday. But she didn't die alone. That night, her four sorority sisters make a solemn, trembling pledge. They will never reveal what has just happened in those
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HarperCollins
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2012
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To have. To hold . . . To die.
On a windswept New England island, he waits, fingering the wedding gowns he's had made for each of them . . . the dresses they will wear when he kills them.
Three women have come to the Bramble Rose Inn. Sandy Cavelli longs to find romance through a personal ad. Liza Danning hopes to land a publishing deal with a reclusive author. And Jennie Towne, masquerading as her own twin, seeks a getaway weekend.
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HarperCollins
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2016
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New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub returns to Mundy's Landing—a small town where bygone bloodshed has become big business.
Hair neatly braided, hands serenely clasped, eyes closed, the young woman appeared to be sound asleep. But the peaceful tableau was a madman's handiwork. Beneath the covers, her white nightgown was spattered with blood. At daybreak, a horrified family would discover her corpse
...12) Dead of winter
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Crooked Lane
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2017.
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In Valley View, a small town populated by mediums, a superstitious killer is on the prowl and gunning for Bella Jordan, who witnessed one of his body dumps, and the whole town must come together to stop the murderer before he strikes again.
13) Prose and cons
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Severn House
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2021.
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"It's been nine months since widowed mom Bella Jordan and her young son Max moved to Lily Dale, the quirky, close-knit New York community populated by people who can speak to the dead . . . if one believes in that kind of thing. Now she counts Valley View, the guesthouse she runs, as home and her psychic medium neighbours as friends. Even haughty, British Pandora, who used to own Valley View before her difficult divorce. So when Pandora sweeps in,...
14) Shadowkiller
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Harper
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c2013
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Allison Taylor MacKenna, who finally feels safe with her loving husband and family, is unaware that a stranger's brutal murder on a Caribbean island has set in motion a chain of events designed to destroy everything in her life.
16) Bone white
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Mundy's Landing volume 3
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2017]
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"In the year since former NYPD Detective Sullivan Leary solved the historic Sleeping Beauty Murders, she--like the village itself--has made a fresh start. But someone has unearthed blood-drenched secrets in a disembodied skull, and is hacking away at the Mundy family tree, branch by branch..." -- Goodreads.com
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2014]
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When Landry Wells attends the funeral of one of a group of online friends with whom she shared extremely personal information, she comes face to face with the other members of the group, one of whom may be a cold-blooded killer.
18) Live to tell
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Avon
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c2010
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As Lauren Walsh tries to protect her children from her messy divorce from her cheating husband, she becomes the target of a cold-blooded mastermind who reveals to her an unimaginable secret that he will never let her live to tell.
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HarperCollins
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2022
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It's the perfect home for the perfect family: pretty Nora Howell, her handsome husband, their two teenage daughters, and lovable dog. As California transplants making a fresh start in Brooklyn, they expected to live in a shoebox, but the brownstone has a huge kitchen, lots of light, and a backyard. The catch: its previous residents were victims of a grisly triple homicide that remains unsolved. Soon, peculiar things begin happening. The pug is nosing...
20) Little girl lost
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HarperCollins
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2018
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MAY, 1968 On a murky pre-dawn Mother's Day, sinister secrets play out miles apart in New York City. In Harlem, a church janitor finds an innocent newborn in a basket. In Brooklyn, an elusive serial killer prowls slumbering families, leaving a trail of blood and a twisted calling card. Cloaked in lies, these seemingly unrelated livesand deathsare destined to intersect on a distant, blood-soaked day. OCTOBER, 1987 Reeling from shocking personal discoveries,...