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Wendy Corsi Staub

Our Favorite Books of 2022

By Crime HQ

January 3, 2023

The Fall Girl by Marcia Clark “Clark utilizes a dual narrative technique…It’s a clever, well-executed move that emphasizes the psychological aspects of the story over the procedural elements, which largely predominated earlier works…The Fall Girl shows Marcia Clark at her absolute best.”   Child Zero by Chris Holm “Chris Holm’s Child Zero is one of the…

Book Review: The Other Family by Wendy Corsi Staub

By John Valeri

January 27, 2022

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub has written nearly ninety novels in a celebrated career that has transcended genre, though her name is most synonymous with adult suspense. While her earliest books in this vein were singular stories featuring women in jeopardy and villains hidden behind familiar faces, she began…

Book Review: The Butcher’s Daughter by Wendy Corsi Staub

By John Valeri

August 28, 2020

The Butcher’s Daughter by Wendy Corsi Staub is the third and final book in the Foundlings series, where Investigative Genealogist Amelia Crenshaw suspects that the key to her birth parents’ identities lies in an unexpected connection to a stranger who’s hired her to find his long-lost daughter. New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub…

5 “Setting-As-Character” Crime Novels For Your TBR Pile

By Wendy Corsi Staub

August 28, 2020

The late great Donald B. Westlake once said, “New York as a character in a mystery would not be the detective, would not be the murderer. It would be the enigmatic suspect who knows the real story but isn’t going to tell it.” Westlake, a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master and three-times Edgar Award…

Dead Silence by Wendy Corsi Staub

Book Review: Dead Silence by Wendy Corsi Staub

By John Valeri

August 6, 2019

In Wendy Corsi Staub’s riveting new thriller, Dead Silence, uncovering secrets in the past draws one woman into a killer’s web…

Review: Little Girl Lost by Wendy Corsi Staub

By John Valeri

July 23, 2018

Little Girl Lost by Wendy Corsi Staub is a gripping novel of psychological suspense where a young foundling’s path to her biological parents leads to a killer with a chilling agenda. More than 90 books into her storied career, three-time Mary Higgins Clark Award nominee and New York Times-bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub continues to entertain…

Review: Dead of Winter by Wendy Corsi Staub

By John Valeri

November 6, 2017

Dead of Winter by Wendy Corsi Staub is the third book in the Lily Dale Mysteries series (available November 7, 2017). New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub is a veritable powerhouse. With more than 80 novels to her name (and a few aliases), she has proved reliable among genres including psychological suspense, young adult,…

Review: Bone White by Wendy Corsi Staub

By John Valeri

March 27, 2017

Bone White by Wendy Corsi Staub is the 3rd and final book in the Mundy's Landing Trilogy (available March 28, 2017). “We shall never tell.” This cryptic phrase, discovered in a centuries-old letter, is the driving force that propels Emerson Mundy on a decisive search for truth in Bone White, the final book in New…

5 New Books to Read this Week: October 11, 2016

By Crime HQ

October 12, 2016

Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! This week, Lady Emily is in Greece and Mitch Rapp is all over the map trying to keep Pakistan's nukes from…

Blue Moon: New Excerpt

By Wendy Corsi Staub

July 26, 2016

Blue Moon by Wendy Corsi Staub is the 2nd book in her series featuring Mundy's Landing—a small town where bygone bloodshed has become big business (Available July 26, 2016). 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…

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