More Lily Dale entertainment! Seriously, between all the Lily Dale references I've seen on "Mysteries at the Museum" (yep, I'm a nerd) and these books, a visit to Lily Dale, NY is steadily moving higher up on my 'bucket list'. I also always enjoy Ms. Staub's Author's Notes. The only reason I have...
Scared to Death did not scare me. I rate it a 3 because of the confusing convoluted story and the struggle trying to keep the characters straight.It has been fifteen years since the adopted son Jereny was kidnapped.He was taken to India and abandoned. Unfortunatedly, a pedophile finds him and he ...
The novel begins with the death of the protagonist’s mother. Calla Delaney’s mother dies in a freak accident in which she falls down the stairs and breaks her neck when she lands on the ceramic tile floor below. Calla has difficulty accepting her mother’s death because she claims that her mother ...
This was the first Wendy Corsi Straub book I had ever read, and I was not disappointed. The writing style is nice and concise, with a interesting mix of characters and minor conflicts (aside the major one, of course) make for a very interesting tale while you wonder about just who some of the cha...
Determined to go it alone after being abandoned at the altar by her fianc, a pregnant Peyton Somerset prepares for single motherhood, but her joy about the prospects of having a baby turns to terror when she begins to suspect that she is being followed, that someone has been watching her, and tha...
A new novel of suspense that promises to propel USA Today bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub into the ranks of the masters of the genre.When a medium returns to the small-town home where her childhood friend was killed, she intends to coax the secrets of the house out into the light -- before t...
Creepy story which left me feeling icky. The guy in this book was really twisted and the setting felt foreboding, even though the Inn was described as a cross between Old New England and Laura Ashley.I finished it but can't say I'll run out to read another one. Just not my cup of tea. Same reason...
I have become such a fan of Wendi Corsi Staub and look forward with pleasure to her novels. They always keep me turning page after page after page and often find I read the novel in one sitting. She writes a good suspense novel, just when you "think" you've got it figured out, BAM another twist!!...
3.5/5 Wendy Corsi Staub is a new to me author, but definitely not a new author - she has close to eighty books to her credit!She Loves Me Not has been recently released as an audio book. Rose Larrabee is a widowed mother of two. She's working hard to keep things together, both financially, physi...
Malachy’s Home turns out to be a sprawling stone mansion located on a steep bluff rising high above the Hudson River.Rory guides Kevin’s little red car through the open gates and up the winding drive to the home, noticing that the place has an air of neglect about it. The too-tall lawn is dotted ...
According to Liz Jessee— the world’s friendliest landlady— Hell’s Kitchen, in the heart of Manhattan’s West Side, was once a desolate stretch of the city. Now, Hell’s Kitchen— and thus, Liz Jessee’s no-frills five-story brick building—is in a desirable location, entirely conve-nient to restaurant...
Her thoughts are on the cold beer that’s waiting for her in the fridge, and today’s episode of her favorite soap, recorded, as always, on the DVR. She grabs a bath towel and vigorously rubs it over her dyed-black hair before wrapping it around herself sarong style. Opening...
This time, luckily, the place was open, and crowded with couples on this summery Saturday night. The decor reflects the neighborhood’s vintage aesthetic, with century-old mosaic tile floor, pressed tin ceiling, dark wood wainscoting, and a white marble-topped bar running the length of the room. I...
The child, who had been running across the small gravel-paved playground toward the swingset, turns at the sound of his name. “Elizabeth,” he says happily, doing an about-face and making a beeline in her direction. She is reminded of the first time she ever laid eyes on him, a few years ago. She ...
He wouldn’t be doing that if she’d had the chance to tell him what she wanted to tell him last night. Now who’s a coward? she scolds herself as she pulls a red sweater over her white blouse and zips her feet into a pair of warm boots. It hadn’t take...
Push me higher!” “Any higher, and you’re going to go right up to the moon!” “I want to! I want to go over the moon, like the cow in the nursery rhyme!” “You’re getting too old for nursery rhymes,” he told her. &nb...
But on this cool and gusty June night, she and Chance the Cat have the place all to themselves. The mackerel tabby is lounging on the bay window seat downstairs in the front parlor, watching the world go by on Cottage Row. At this time of year, the world mainly consists of...
You can’t go down there.”“Look! Look what they did!” Jerry points with a trembling hand to where flames still burn in the night, down at the far end of a dust-coated thoroughfare lined with shattered storefronts and burned-out cars, the ground littered with paper and debris. “Look at that.”The co...
Mr. Bombeck is writing yet another excruciatingly difficult problem on the board—and Calla is wishing the last bell would hurry up and ring—when it happens. Again. She feels the presence before she spots the source. It makes itself known in the now-familiar way: a sudden chill creeps into the cla...
Lucy asks yet again, as Lauren hangs up on Nick’s voice mail yet again without leaving a message.She’s already left three on his cell and a couple more on his home phone. Ryan texted and e-mailed him as well, about an hour ago—when Nick was almost an hour late.Now it’s been two hours with no word...
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Of course, I’ve fictionalized all of the characters in my book, as well as some community elements—for instance, there is no Lily Dale High School—and I’ve taken some creative liberties with other details. But the town itself is pretty much as I have described it: a quaint, isolated, gated Victor...
Me? I’ll be sitting alone in my kitchen eating a turkey sandwich, most likely, same as I do every year. But don’t feel sorry for me. I have plenty to be grateful for. My health, with continued remission, tops the list. All of you, my good friends, are right up there, too—along with the incredible...
Absently noticing that the wet March snow is already starting to stick, she turns the windshield wipers a notch faster. According to AccuWeather, the temperature will have plummeted into the twenties by dusk, with well over a foot of new snow in the forecast before the thermometer boomerangs up i...