Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages Publisher: Harper (July 29, 2014) Language: English ISBN-10: 0062222406 ISBN-13: 978-0062222404	Order book here:
		Order E-book here:

Characters:

BamaBelle/Landry Wells – Blogger and cancer survivor.
Meredith Heywood – Blogger, Cancer Survivor.

Synopsis:

A close knit group of cancer patient bloggers are shocked when one of their group ends up dead. This death however, is not from cancer, but appears to be murder. Is one of their own responsible?

Review

This was a really good story. The characters were developed well, but outside of the characterization, was a kind of warning. A warning on the dangers we all face in this technological age of having too much of our personal lives known by strangers. What happens when one of those strangers might decide to use the information we innocently post, to being doing harm. That is the overall theme of this novel and leaves a lot to think about.

As the women are pulled deeper and deeper into the mystery of their friends death, paranoia begins to seep in. Who could the killer be? Is it JayCee? Could it be first grade teacher Elena? As more and more victims pile up to the killer, the suspicions grow.

This was my first time reading one of Ms. Staub’s novels, but if it’s an example of her writing, I will definitely go back and check out some of her previous and future entries. Due to content, I’d recommend it for older audiences. But for those who enjoy a good thriller, check out The Perfect Stranger, and as always be sure to drop back by and let us know what you thought. Also be sure and drop by and read our interview with Ms. Staub.

About the Author

New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub is the award-winning author of more than seventy-five published novels and has sold more than four million books worldwide. Under her own name, Wendy achieved New York Times bestselling status with her single title psychological suspense novels. Those novels and the women’s fiction she writes under the pseudonym Wendy Markham also frequently appeared on the USA Today, Barnes and Noble Top Ten, and Bookscan bestseller lists.

Wendy’s latest suspense novels for Harpercollins are linked by a social networking theme and include THE GOOD SISTER (Harper, October 2013), which has been optioned for television by Fox, as well as the upcoming THE PERFECT STRANGER (July 2014) and THE BLACK WIDOW (2014). Earlier in 2013, she concluded a bestselling, award-winning trilogy that was launched by Harpercollins in September 2012 with NIGHTWATCHER, which won the 2013 Westchester Library Association Washington Irving Prize for Fiction. It was followed in October by the New York Times bestselling SLEEPWALKER, which went on to become a finalist for the prestigious Simon and Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award presented at the Mystery Writers of America Edgars Symposium in April 2013. The trilogy’s final title, SHADOWKILLER, was released in February 2013.

Wendy’s thriller LIVE TO TELL (Avon Books, March 2010) received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was also a finalist at the 2011 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awards for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. The sequel, SCARED TO DEATH, (Avon Books, January 2011) was honored with the WLA Washington Irving Prize for Fiction and the trilogy concluded with the bestseller HELL TO PAY (Avon Books, October 2011).

She contributed a short story, “My Father’s Eyes,” to the FIRST THRILLS anthology edited by Lee Child (Forge, June 2010).
As “Wendy Markham,” her most recent title, THE BEST GIFT, is a sequel to the acclaimed 2006 Christmas Time Travel romance, IF ONLY IN MY DREAMS (both from Signet).

Wendy won the 2008 RT Award for Career Achievement in Suspense and the 2007 RWA-NYC Golden Apple Award for Lifetime Achievement. A proud recipient of the RWA Rita award, she has also been honored five times with the Westchester Library Association’s Washington Irving Prize for Fiction and was recognized as one of WLA’s Millennial Authors in 2000. Her Wendy Markham novel SLIGHTLY SINGLE was named one of Waldenbooks’ 100 Best Fiction titles of 2002. Her novels SLIGHTLY SUBURBAN, THE LAST TO KNOW, and ASK ME AGAIN were nominated for RT Reviewers Choice awards, and five of her novels, DON’T SCREAM; THE LAST TO KNOW; MIKE, MIKE AND ME; HELLO, IT’S ME; and BRIDE NEEDS GROOM, were awarded a month’s top pick review by the RT BOOK club magazine.

Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages worldwide and her titles are regularly selected as features for Mystery Guild, Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, Large Print Book Club, and Rhapsody Book Club.

*Disclaimer* A special thanks goes out to Lauren at Harper Collins for a review copy of this book. It in no way influenced my review. You can discuss it here or join my facebook page and discuss it there.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 29th, 2014 at 12:00 am and is filed under Books, Fiction, Mystery/Thriller. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.