Lullaby And Goodnight [Paperback]

Wendy Corsi Staub (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 7, 2005

At thirty-nine, Peyton Somerset has an enviable life, with a thriving advertising career and a beautiful Manhattan apartment. And now she's going to have the one thing she wants most - a baby. Peyton's biological clock went off just as her fiance took off, leaving her at the alter. So Peyton's going through it alone. Already, she's making plans for the little one inside her...buying the layette, daydreaming, and worrying over the littlest things. That's only natural. All mothers do. But Peyton has reason to worry. In fact, she has every reason to be terrified...As the months pass, Peyton can't help feeling that something is terribly wrong. She's certain that someone has been in her apartment, that she's being followed, that someone is watching her. Maybe it's just hormonal paranoia that makes her distrust everyone around her. Or maybe her maternal instincts are dead on. Maybe there's someone close who doesn't think she should give birth at all. Someone who would do anything to have a baby. Anything...

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Pinnacle (June 7, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786016426
• ISBN-13: 978-0786016426
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #259,176 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I'm an award winning, New York Times bestselling suspense novelist of more than 70 novels. All of my adult thrillers and in print backlist are available on Amazon and many are e-books as well. Check out my author website at www.WendyCorsiStaub.com, my reader community site at www.WendyCorsiStaubCommunity.com, and my author page at www.facebook.com/pages/Wendy-Corsi-Staub/43054289209. I'm also a bestselling novelist with the chick lit and romantic comedy I write under the pseudonym "Wendy Markham."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars an exciting thriller, September 12, 2006

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Sammy Madison (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lullaby And Goodnight (Paperback)

I really enjoyed Donna Anders' thrillers, and was looking for another author who wrote suspenseful, scary books I could curl up on the couch with on a cold rainy evening. Most of the thrillers written from a female point of view seem to be thinly disguised romance novels and the heroines are helpless twits, but happily I have now discovered Wendy Corsi Staub. I have read several of her books and they are all good and scary, with female characters I can respect and relate to. "Lullaby and Goodnight" is about Peyton, a thirty-nine year old woman living in Manhattan, with a successful career but no relationship and a ticking biological clock. She decides to become artifically inseminated (she is not pregnant by a former lover, as an earlier reviewer wrote). She becomes friends with another single mother-to-be in a support group. When her new friend disappears, strange and frightening things start happening to Peyton. You will be kept on the edge of your seat up to the last page.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Spine-tingling Story!, May 28, 2005

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Becky James-Muth "beckythemom" (Harpers Ferry, WV) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lullaby And Goodnight (Paperback)

Wendy Corsi Staub has written some bone chilling mysteries but this one is by far her best yet. The twists and turns throughout the book will leave you guessing until the last pages. A group of single, pregnant women meet for support. Like in any group, friendships are formed, people are gossiped about. All seems well until the group's members -- pregnant through circumstances as individual as the moms themselves -- begin to disappear one at a time. Then other characters begin to disappear as well. On the surface it appears as though the disappearances could be explained away, brushed off as pre-delivery jitters, spousal disagreements, etc. Or is one person's need for a child so great that it pushes a simple parental longing to a life of criminal activity? If you like Lisa Jackson and Mary Higgings Clark, you'll love this author!

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars On okay read, April 18, 2006

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Karen Boml "Kiki" (Hudson, NH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lullaby And Goodnight (Paperback)

I found the book to be written in a quick and choppy manner.....also to be too predictable, as was also the case with her last book, unfortunately....
I read many, many suspense books....usually I can't put them down....this wasn't the case...I had to almost force myself to continue, and did so only because I did like Peyton, the lead character.....I just wish there was more substance.....and twists....there were no surprises for me...none of the characters were built up enough for us to actually feel lots of compassion for their circumstances...they just seemed to have disappeared off the pages, end of character....I wanted to feel tension.....I felt none....I wanted to feel anger/fright...I felt none...I wanted to feel surprised/but didn't....
The authors earlier books appealed to me much more than her last two....