Book Review: The Last to Know

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

The Last to Know     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Wendi Corsi Staub
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Psychological Suspense
Kensington, Mar 2001, $6.99, 464 pp.

Suburban Townsend Heights is a quiet place where people still do not have to lock their homes or cars. However, the peaceful tranquility vanishes when stay-at-home mom Jane Kendall disappears. The police do not know that Jane jumped off a cliff into a raging river in order to save the life of her child Schuyler. Someone forced Jane to jump using her beloved child as leverage.

The townsfolk search for Jane, hoping to find her unharmed. Two other stay-at-home moms are killed leaving peer Tasha Banks frightened that she could be next. Tasha feels alone as her spouse is emotionally on another planet. However, her part of the nightmare begins on a rainy evening when her children are missing.

Wendy Corsi Staub is making quite a popular name for herself amidst the psychological suspense audience as a master of escalating tension that even frightens the reader. THE LAST TO KNOW is not the type of action thriller that one reads when no one else is around because as it happened to Jane, it could happen to you.

Harriet Klausner

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