Authors: Wendy Corsi Staub

The Black Widow (37 page)

Praise for the work of Wendy Corsi Staub,
two-time finalist for the

MARY HIGGINS CLARK award

Hell to Pay

“Clever, well-written and riveting. Wendy Corsi Staub is a master storyteller!”

New York Times
bestselling author Brenda Novak

Solid gold suspense . . . this one is a wild ride.”

Lee Child, #1
New York Times
bestselling author

The Good Sister

“A chilling, captivating and all-too-timely tale of suburban suspense,
The Good Sister
is guaranteed to keep you up at night and keep a closer eye on your kids, too! I couldn’t put it down.”

Alison Gaylin,
USA Today
bestselling author

“Taut, tense and incredibly suspenseful. This chillingly creepy psychological thriller is the perfect page-turner. Staub’s powerful and timely story-telling is captivating!”

Hank Phillippi Ryan, Agatha, Anthony and Macavity-winning author

“Intense! Wendy Corsi Staub once again delivers a masterful psychological mystery that is both
chilling and thrilling. You will not be able to put
The Good Sister
down until the very last page.”

Allison Brennan

“I haven’t been this frightened for the citizens of Buffalo, New York, since I was born there! Wendy Corsi Staub weaves a tale of good sisters and fallen angels as terrifyingly chilling as the winter winds off Lake Erie!”

Chris Grabenstein, multiple award-winning mystery author

By Wendy Corsi Staub

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Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Excerpt from
Blood Red
copyright © 2015 by Wendy Corsi Staub.

THE BLACK WIDOW.
Copyright © 2015 by Wendy Corsi Staub. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

EPub Edition MARCH 2015 ISBN: 978-0-06-222244-2

Print Edition ISBN: 978-0-06-222243-5

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