Review: Live to Tell by Wendy Corsi Staub

Title:  Live to Tell
Author:  Wendy Corsi Staub (website)
Genre:  Mystery/Suspense
Publisher:  Avon
ISBN:  978-0061895067
374 pages

Secrets can scandalize . . .

In a lovely suburban town just north of New York City, the gossip mill runs more efficiently than the commuter-train line. And in every impeccably decorated house, they’re talking about Lauren Walsh. They say that nothing could be worse than being abandoned by your husband for another woman. They’re wrong . . .

Secrets can shock . . .

All Lauren wants is to protect her children from the pain of her messy divorce. But when their father goes missing, a case of mistaken identity puts all their lives in danger, and a stealthy predator lurks in the shadows, watching . . . waiting . . .

Secrets can kill . . .

Lauren is about to uncover an unfathomable truth—a truth this cold-blooded mastermind would never let her live to tell . .

Lauren Walsh is trying to pick up the pieces after her husband leaves her for another woman.  Her three children are devastated; her neighbors are talking; and Lauren is trying to hold her splintered family together.  When her youngest child, Sadie, loses a beloved stuffed animal during an outing in NYC, Lauren is adamant that her (ex) husband step up and find the toy.  This lost toy sets off a chain of events that will leave Lauren’s family forever changed.

This is another fantastic book by Wendy Corsi Staub, full of edge-of-your-seat suspense.  I couldn’t wait to see how the story wrapped up and the author pulled all of these seemingly random events together into one cohesive plot!  This is a solid book and one I would definitely recommend to any mystery lovers out there.  Ms. Staub is one of my favorite female mystery writers.  She creates fantastic characters and interesting plots that will keep you guessing until the last page.  I was really excited to find out that this is the first book in a trilogy, with the next book due out later this year.  The ending definitely leaves you wanting more and I can’t wait to read book 2, SCARED TO DEATH!

And, did you know that this author is also known as Wendy Markham, the women’s fiction writer?!  She has written the “Slightly” series (Slightly Single, Slightly Engaged, Slightly Settled, Slightly Married, Slightly Suburban) as well as other books in the Red Dress Ink chick lit imprint.  I love all those books, too!  That’s your little factoid of the day! 

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