—RT Book Reviews
The Good Sister
“A chilling, captivating and all-too-timely tale of suburban suspense, The Good Sister is guaranteed to keep you up at night—and keep a closer eye on your kids, too! I couldn’t put it down.”
—Alison Gaylin, USA Today bestselling author
“Taut, tense, and incredibly suspenseful. This chillingly creepy psychological thriller is the perfect page-turner—Staub’s powerful and timely story-telling is captivating!”
—Hank Phillippi Ryan, Agatha, Anthony and Macavity winning author
“Intense! Wendy Corsi Staub once again delivers a masterful psychological mystery that is both chilling and thrilling. You will not be able to put The Good Sister down until the very last page.”
—Allison Brennan
“I haven’t been this frightened for the citizens of Buffalo, New York, since I was born there! Wendy Corsi Staub weaves a tale of good sisters and fallen angels as terrifyingly chilling as the winter winds off Lake Erie!”
—Chris Grabenstein, multiple award-winning mystery author
By Wendy Corsi Staub
Mundy’s Landing Series
Bone White
Blue Moon
Blood Red
And
Dead Silence
Little Girl Lost
The Black Widow
The Perfect Stranger
The Good Sister
Shadowkiller
Sleepwalker
Nightwatcher
Hell to Pay
Scared to Death
Live to Tell
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Excerpt from The Butcher’s Daughter copyright © 2020 by Wendy Corsi Staub.
dead silence. Copyright © 2019 by Wendy Corsi Staub. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Digital Edition AUGUST 2019 ISBN: 978-0-06-274207-0
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-274206-3
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