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Lullaby And Goodnight

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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.

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!

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....

This book was so intence. Any mother would know what I mean. It kept me on the edge of my chair. I've read every book by Wendy Corsi Staub and loved them all. Can't wait till her next one comes out.

Lullaby and Goodnight is another winner by Ms. Corsi Staub. I took this book everywhere I went trying to sneak in a few minutes to read it each hour. It was hard to put down. Once again there is a host of characters that Ms. Corsi Staub creatively ties together in the plot. This is a good summer read.

I LOVE Wendy Corsi Staub!

This book is right up there with the rest of her work; fast paced great mystery with plenty of twists and turns. There are a lot of characters to keep straight but Ms. Staub helps the reader do so effortlessly. The plot keeps trucking right along providing plenty of suspense, just enough romance and a few gasps along the way.

A highly recommended read!

In Manhattan, advertising account manger Peyton Somerset is close to forty when her doctor informs her she is pregnant. The father of her unborn wants nothing to do with a child so they break up as the single mom to be plans to raise the child as her own though she has fears and doubts.

Needing watermelon, Peyton arrives at the store but does not have enough money. The next customer on line researcher Thomas Reilly buys the fruit for her and walks her home although Peyton worries about this kind stranger being a killer because this is New York and not her home town of Talbot Corners, Kansas. As she goes deeper into her pregnancy, Peyton begins to wonder if someone has been inside her apartment several times as things just seem slightly off kilter. She wonders if New York City has made her gone native; paranoid that someone is stalking her. Peyton wonders if that someone could be Thomas who seems to be around a lot. When she learns that the paranoid sometimes are right, it may prove too late as trimester pregnant females are the target of a serial killer.

This frightening tale will leave readers saying no way throughout the reading, but at the end realize with some of the headline atrocities in the news yes way. The story line grips the audience switching between the killer and several pregnant women (the above paragraphs highlights one key potential victim) so that the audience sees various perspectives. Wendy Corsi Staub writes a frightening suspense thriller that grabs the attention of the audience with the comparison of a matricidal serial killer vs. pregnant victims going through the months of what should be joyful occasions.

Harriet Klausner

This book was wonderful. Right up there with the other Wendy Corsi Staub books.. .. I loved it and could not put down til I was done.

I had to pretend I was hard at work and needed privacy just to finish reading this book. It was too good to put down just 10 pages from the end. Talk about gripping. There are a lot of characters and names being slung around, but it's very fast-paced and a page-turner.

All I can say about Wendy Corsi Staub, is that I have loved every book she has written. While a casual walk through the book store a few years back brought me to the title called "Blink of an Eye", I haven't been able to put her books down. After reading that book, I went out and bought all her books previously released and preorder any book that hasn't been released. If she could only write faster...LOL - Her stories aren't hard readers, just enjoyalble with a little Who Dun It...Well read and find out, that Wendy Corsi Staub has done it again with her latest release. She gets 5 stars from me all the way.