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Tuesday, July 23, 2019

RELEASE DAY: Dead Silence by Wendy Corsi Staub

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Published by William Morrow
Release day: July 23, 2019
 Pages: 400

DEAD SILENCE

The Foundlings Trilogy


 BOOK TWO



New York Times Bestselling Author Wendy Corsi Staub is the master of psychological suspense. Here, she delves into the twisted mind of The Angler, who lures his human prey the way he catches fish. Sometimes, he gets one worth keeping… for a little while…

No Such Thing as Coincidence…

Staring into his frightened blue eyes, investigative genealogist Amelia Crenshaw Haines vows to help this silent little boy who is unable—or unwilling—to communicate his past. Though her own roots remain shrouded in mystery, she relies on tangible DNA evidence to help fellow foundlings uncover theirs . . . until a remarkable twist of fate presents a stranger bearing an eerily familiar childhood souvenir.

NYPD Missing Persons Detective Stockton Barnes has spent his career searching for other people’s lost loved ones and outrunning a youthful misstep. Now a chance encounter with a key player from that fateful night leads him on a desperate quest to locate the one woman he’s ever regretted leaving—unless a savage killer finds her first.

As Amelia and Barnes uncover intertwining truths—and lies—the real horror emerges not in crimes already committed, but in evil yet to come . . .







 
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I have purchased a few of Wendy Corsi Staub's audiobooks. I've really enjoyed them. I have found that Miss Staub's writing is layered. There seems to be stories inside of stories. Characters are extremely well developed and Staub really likes to dive into their lives, she gives us the who, what, where of our people. This can be a bit overwhelming in the beginning but it does serve a purpose so don't let it beat you down. The details Staub adds are generally pertinent... give it some time!

I feel like I should mention that I have not read the first book in the Foundlings Trilogy. With that said, I think it would be best for the reader to start at the beginning. We do get to know NYPD Missing Persons Detective Stockton Barnes. From checking out the first book briefly, it looks like when you just jump into Dead Silence you may end up missing some of his general information since he is the lead in the first book. However, I really feel like Miss Staub did a thorough job of introducing Barnes to us. He’s a bit brash… just like I enjoy my detectives!

I really liked Amelia. She's self aware. Bluntly honest with herself... if you can't be honest with yourself, can you be honest with anyone? She might be feeling a bit of the doldrums... kind of like she's stuck in the rut called life. Perhaps this is her mid-life crisis. She’s wanting things to shake up just a bit… she might get just what she’s asked for!

Dead Silence comes out swinging! That opening chapter… goodness! It had me rushing through the entire story. I thought the genealogy aspect was really a fascinating route to go. People are so obsessed with those internet sites that find your heritage and long-lost family. I feel like Staub put a compulsive, fast-paced spin on something nearly everyone is interested in these days. Plus, we get this human-feel for the people behind the genealogy studies. Besides being an unstoppable thriller, it was just an interesting story!

I received an ARC of this book with the hope that I would leave an Unbiased Opinion. I was not required to leave a review, positive or otherwise, and my opinions are just that... my opinions.
 







LITTLE GIRL LOST


BOOK ONE


From New York Times Bestselling Author Wendy Corsi Staub comes a gripping novel of psychological suspense, as a young foundling’s path to her biological parents leads to a killer with a chilling agenda

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 lives—and deaths—are destined to intersect on a distant, blood-soaked day.

OCTOBER, 1987

Reeling from shocking personal discoveries, two strangers navigate a world where nothing is as it seems. Amelia Crenshaw embarks on a search to discover the truth about the birth mother who abandoned her, never suspecting she’s on a collision course with a killer. Detective Stockton Barnes, a brash young NYPD detective, trails a missing millionaire whose disappearance is rooted in a nightmare that began twenty years ago.

The past returns with a brutal vengeance as a masked predator picks off victims whose fates intertwine with a notorious murder spree solved back in ‘68—or was it?


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 About Wendy Corsi Staub


 
New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub is the award-winning author of more than ninety novels, best known for the single title psychological suspense novels she writes under her own name. Those books and the women’s fiction she writes under the pseudonym Wendy Markham have also appeared on the USA Today, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Bookscan bestseller lists.

LITTLE GIRL LOST (July, William Morrow) launches Wendy’s fifth suspense trilogy for HarperCollins. In 2017, she concluded her Mundy’s Landing trilogy with BONE WHITE (April, William Morrow), and released DEAD OF WINTER (November, Crooked Lane), the third title in her Lily Dale traditional mystery series.

Her novel HELLO, IT’S ME was a recent Hallmark television movie starring Kellie Martin. Her short story “Cat Got Your Tongue” will appear in R.L. Stine’s upcoming MWA middle grade anthology SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN (HarperCollins, 2018).

A three-time finalist for the Simon and Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award, she’s won an RWA Rita Award, an RT Award for Career Achievement in Suspense, the 2007 RWA-NYC Golden Apple Award for Lifetime Achievement, and five WLA Washington Irving Prizes for Fiction.

She previously published a dozen adult suspense novels with Kensington Books and the critically-acclaimed young adult paranormal series “Lily Dale” (Walker/Bloomsbury). Earlier in her career, she published a broad range of genres under her own name and pseudonyms, and was a co-author/ghostwriter for several celebrities.

Raised in Dunkirk, NY, Wendy graduated from SUNY Fredonia and launched a publishing career in New York City. She was Associate Editor at Silhouette Books before selling her first novel in 1992. Married with two sons, she lives in the NYC suburbs. An active supporter of the American Cancer Society, she was a featured speaker at Northern Westchester’s 2015 Relay for Life and 2012 National Spokesperson for the Sandy Rollman Ovarian Cancer Foundation. She has has fostered for various animal rescue organizations.


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