MT Review: Nightwatcher [Mass Market Paperback]

I've finished "Nightwatcher" by Wendy Corsi Staub.

From the Back Cover

As the city sleeps in the early hours of September 10, 2001, the killer waits and watches, unaware of the cataclysm to come. Even the nightmare of 9/11 will not postpone his private reign of terror.

Allison Taylor adores her adopted city, New York, loving every minute of the invigorating urban hustle. But on a bright and clear September morning, the familiar landscape around her is savagely altered — and in the midst of widespread chaos and fear, a woman living upstairs from her is found, brutally slaughtered and mutilated.

For Allison for her neighbor, James "Mack" MacKenna, desperately searching for news of his missing wife   for homicide detective Rocky Manzillo, hunting for a monster called "The Nightwatcher" amid the smoking ruins of a devastated city, this tragic day will hold a special horror. Because a different kind of terror has entered their lives and it's coming to claim Allison Taylor as its next victim.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Harper; Original edition (August 28, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0062070282
ISBN-13: 978-0062070289

My Review:

Allison Tayler has recently moved to New York and she is enjoying living there.  Then her friend living upstairs from her is brutally murdered and mutilated.

Allison's neighbor James "Mack" MacKenna is frantically looking for news of his missing wife and homicide detective Rocky Manzillo is hunting for a monster dubbed "The NightWatcher" among the devastating 9/11 events.

I hate to admit it took me a few days to finish this book because it didn't really catch my interest.  I did enjoy the storyline and I felt bad for Allison because she's innocent and bad things keep happening to her and around her.  A few characters were shallow and self absorbed that didn't really cared about them but I wouldn't wish what happened to them.

3/5

Books in series:

1.  Nightwatcher
2.  Sleepwalker
3.  Shadowkiller

MT Review: Hell to Pay [Mass Market Paperback]

I've finished "Hell to Pay" the 3rd book in her Cavalon and Walsh trilogy by Wendy Corsi Staub.

Product Description

And so it begins . . . again.

Survivors of a serial killer who invaded their childhood, Lucy Walsh and Jeremy Cavalon are married now, replacing nightmares of their terrifying past with joyful dreams of the upcoming birth of their first child. Fiercely determined to protect the fragile balance of their lives, Lucy doesn’t know that her new husband guards a deadly secret . . . or that an Act of God is about to unleash a vengeful fury.

For shell-shocked Lucy and Jeremy, the horrible death of a loved one is a tragic accident. But for a shadowy predator, it’s the first step toward completing a deadly mission that was interrupted so long ago. Now, at last, the members of the Walsh and Cavalon families will pay for their sins, one by one . . . 

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Avon (September 27, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061895083
ISBN-13: 978-0061895081

My Review:

Lucy and Jeremy barely survived an attack by a serial killer during their childhood. Now they are married and are expecting a child. Years ago the Cavalon family won a case against the killer and they lost all their assets. Now they are determined to make both of them pay including their family by killing them off one by one. First they kill Jeremy's adopted grandma Silvie Durand but makes it look like an accident. They move into her apartment unaware that someone is watching their every move.

This last book in the series is very fast paced right from the start of the book to the end and never lets up.  The killer is very psychotic and believes that God is on their side and wants them to avenge what was wrongly done to them.

Though the ending was kind of quick and we don't find out the fate of some people who were seriously hurt.

4/5

Thanks HarperCollins Canada for sending me this book to review, greatly appreciated!

Scared to Death [Mass Market Paperback]

I've finished "Scared to Death" the 2nd in her trilogy series by Wendy Corsi Staub.

Product Description

Elsa Cavalon — petrified that the nightmare from fifteen years earlier is beginning all over again .
Marin Quinn — hiding with her daughters in their concrete fortress, her storybook marriage over .

Perfect strangers whose once-perfect lives were cruelly shattered, they're bound by a long-lost child, a fragile strand of newfound maternal hope — and mutual loneliness. Yet Elsa and Marin are never truly alone. Someone is always nearby, watching them and their children. Someone driven by vengeance and the simple poetry of nursery rhymes . . . Someone who must satisfy a dark need with innocent blood. And now time is running out for two mothers stalked by a cunning mastermind who wants to leave them . . .

Scared to death

About the Author

New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub is the award-winning author of more than seventy novels. She lives in the New York City suburbs with her husband of seventeen years and their two children.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Avon; Original edition (December 28, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061895075
ISBN-13: 978-0061895074

My Review:

I highly recommend reading "Live to Tell" the 1st in the series so you know who the main players are!

Storyline:   15 yrs ago Elsa's adopted 7 yr. old son Jeremy was kidnapped in broad daylight.  20 yrs. ago Marin gave up her son Jeremy for adoption.  Elsa is in the process of adopted 7 yr. old Renny who is scared of enclosed spaces.  What she didn't expect was her nightmares to come back to haunt her which leaves her no choice but to run with Renny and her life.  She never believed that Jeremy was dead but still alive somewhere!

Marin is dealing with the betrayal and lies of her disgraced Congressman husband and being there for her daughters.  It was her husband who was behind the kidnapping and murder of Jeremy.  When a threat is directed towards her daughter Caroline she has to decide if she is just seeking attention or not.  Lauren from "Live to Tell" is the one she runs to and seeks advice.

Characters: All of the characters were well written and you got to know them.  I really connected with Elsa and Marin!

Killer: The killer was one sick person and had no remorse or feelings about killing their victims.  You learn the early history of the killer and what happened to them to make them this way!

4/5

Thanks Shannon from HarperCollins Canada for sending me this book to review, greatly appreciated!

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Live to Tell [Mass Market Paperback]

I've finished "Live to Tell" by Wendy Corsi Staub.  There is a sequel to this one called "Scared to Death" which comes out Dec 28th.

Product Description

Secrets can scandalize . . .

In a lovely suburban town just north of New York City, the gossip mill runs more efficiently than the commuter-train line. And in every impeccably decorated house, they're talking about Lauren Walsh. They say that nothing could be worse than being abandoned by your husband for another woman. They're wrong ...

Secrets can shock . . .

All Lauren wants is to protect her children from the pain of her messy divorce. But when their father goes missing, a case of mistaken identity puts all their lives in danger, and a stealthy predator lurks in the shadows, watching . . . waiting . . .

Secrets can kill . . .

Lauren is about to uncover an unfathomable truth—a truth this cold-blooded mastermind would never let her live to tell . . .

My Review:

It was slow moving at the beginning but then it becames more fast paced as you read along.

I had to kind of make myself finish the book.

3/5

The Final Victim (Paperback)

I've just finished reading "The Final Victim" by Wendy Corsi Staub.

Product Description

What She Left Behind… Everyone in Savannah, Georgia knows the Remington estate. The rambling old house bears blatant testimony not just to the esteemed family's vast wealth, but to unbearable tragedy and whispered secrets. Soon, the Remingtons will all come home to this secluded plantation nestled deep in the shadow of moss-covered trees. Then they will have to die…one by one…

Hasn’t Just Come Back To Haunt Her… For Charlotte Remington Maitland, the past five years have been a haze of pain and loss. Now, with her new husband and teenaged daughter, she’s found a second chance at happiness—until the moment her grandfather’s will is read. As the sole beneficiary of the vast Remington estate, Charlotte will get everything that’s coming to her. A killer will make sure of that—no matter who has to die…

It’s Come Back To Kill Her. Trapped in a house of lies, searching for answers to deadly questions, Charlotte has never been more afraid. Someone knows her family's deepest secrets. Someone who will take Charlotte to the edge of sanity and the dark heart of her greatest fear in order to make her…

The Final Victim

5/5 - Tricky Ending