About
Wendy Corsi Staub has published nearly eighty novels, including multiple New York Times bestsellers and is best known for her psychological suspense and suburban noir. Her latest release, THE BLACK WIDOW, completes a trilogy that began with THE GOOD SISTER, one of Suspense Magazine’s Best Reads of 2013, and the USA Today bestseller, THE PERFECT STRANGER.
Wendy is a two-time finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award and five time winner of the WLA Washington Irving Prize for Fiction, she has also been honored with the RWA Rita, the RWA-NYC Golden Apple for Lifetime Achievement and the RT Bookreviews Career Achievement Award in Suspense. Alter-ego Wendy Markham writes bestselling romance and chick lit. Now writing another suspense trilogy for Harper, she lives in New York.
The First Book of the Gastar Series: "Act of Redemption"
Description
The once-great city of Gastar stands in ruins following centuries of war by undead monsters driven by an evil temple. Victory cost the people of the knowledge to defeat another enemy, Zermon, ruler of hell, who seeks to extend his realm by annihilation of the few people left. With the help of a sympathetic ancient dragon, volunteer fighters from the past war, and the arrival of a teen assassin named Shevata who is known to Zermon, they combine efforts for the existence of the people of Gastar.
Story Behind The Book
THE BLACK WIDOW explores the predatory dangers of social media relative to the world of online romantic relationships and dating.
Reviews
<p>"Staub is at the top of her writing game with <em>The Black Widow</em>. Even suspense readers will find themselves fully engaged by the wonderfully twisted plot as Staub successfully flirts with some of the established tropes of the suspense genre only to later surprise readers by turning these same classic plot devices on their head. <em>The Black Widow</em> is superior, spine-tingling suspense that fans of Mary Higgins Clark’s early novels will eat up with a spoon."<br />
-- <strong>John Charles for <em><a href="http://readertoreader.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=this_review&pageID=1&ID=12153&mode=0&letter=0&Keywords=0&manu=0&prodGroup=0&item_ASIN=0&author=0&startPage=1&type=0">Reader to Reader</a></em></strong></p>
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<p>“A fantastic thriller that will have you trapped in its pages; Staub has made sure that it is virtually impossible to set this one aside and come back to it.”<br />
-- <em><a href="http://www.suspensemagazine.com/"><strong>Suspense Magazine</strong></a></em></p>
