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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

DEAD SILENCE

Dead Silence, August 2019
The Foundlings
by Wendy Corsi Staub

William Morrow
384 pages
ISBN: 006274206X
EAN: 9780062742063
Kindle: B07F135VH9
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
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"This thriller keeps you hanging on the edge!"

Fresh Fiction Review

DEAD SILENCE
Wendy Corsi Staub

Reviewed by Teresa Cross
Posted December 9, 2019

Thriller Psychological

DEAD SILENCE written by Wendy Corsi Staub is a psychological thriller that you will not forget. This is a thriller with a lot going on, but written well enough to keep you engaged until the end. Staub takes you through the mind of a sick individual called the Angler. He gets his kicks out of catching his prey who are just normal humans. You also see life from the eyes of investigative genealogist with her own mystery that she has to work through. Then, as you read on, you see that these lives all connect in this series that is easy to follow.

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Amelia Crenshaw is the investigator has a personal mystery of her own involving who she is, as well asΒ  more about the biological family that she is trying to find. She makes it her mission to help a young boy, who does not speak and who has no clue where he belongs, find his mom. He is scared but nohbody can figure out what he's so scared of. This is the type of work she's committed herself to - helping foundlings find their families through DNA searches.

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Then there is NYPD Missing Person Detective, Stockton Barnes who helps look for other people’s lost families and love ones. He spends his time looking for a woman who he cares about and wishes he had never left her. How will these two lives of Amelia and Barnes intertwine?

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Staub has a great storyline that makes it a series worth reading. It can be read as a standalone, however you will want to read more after DEAD SILENCE. Wendy Corsi Staub leaves you thirsty for more answers and this novel keeps you hanging on until the very end.

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SUMMARY

New York Times Bestselling Author Wendy Corsi Staub is the master of psychological suspense. Here, she delves into the twisted mind of The Angler, who lures his human prey the way he catches fish. Sometimes, he gets one worth keeping . . . for a little while . . . No Such Thing as Coincidence . . . Staring into his frightened blue eyes, investigative genealogist Amelia Crenshaw Haines vows to help this silent little boy who is unableβ€”or unwillingβ€”to communicate his past. Though her own roots remain shrouded in mystery, she relies on tangible DNA evidence to help fellow foundlings uncover theirs . . . until a remarkable twist of fate presents a stranger bearing an eerily familiar childhood souvenir. NYPD Missing Persons Detective Stockton Barnes has spent his career searching for other people’s lost loved ones and outrunning a youthful misstep. Now a chance encounter with a key player from that fateful night leads him on a desperate quest to locate the one woman he’s ever regretted leavingβ€”unless a savage killer finds her first. As Amelia and Barnes uncover intertwining truthsβ€”and lies β€”the real horror emerges not in crimes already committed, but in evil yet to come . . .

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BOOK SERIES

The Foundlings

Little Girl Lost
LITTLE GIRL LOST
#1.0 β€’ August 2018
Dead Silence
DEAD SILENCE
#2.0 β€’ August 2019
The Butcher's Daughter
THE BUTCHER'S DAUGHTER
#3.0 β€’ September 2020