Wendy Corsi Staub Lullaby and Goodnight

Lullaby and Goodnight

Wendy Corsi Staub

ISBN: 0786016426

In Manhattan, advertising account manger Peyton Somerset is close to forty when her doctor informs her she is pregnant. The father of her unborn wants nothing to do with a child so they break up, as the single mom to-be plans to raise the child as her own though she has fears and doubts.

Needing watermelon, Peyton arrives at the store but does not have enough money. The next customer, online researcher Thomas Reilly buys the fruit for her and walks her home although Peyton worries about this kind stranger being a killer because this is New York and not her home town of Talbot Corners, Kansas. As she goes deeper into her pregnancy, Peyton begins to wonder if someone has been inside her apartment several times as things just seem slightly off kilter. She wonders if New York City has made her gone native; paranoid that someone is stalking her. Peyton wonders if that someone could be Thomas who seems to be around a lot. When she learns that the paranoid are sometimes right, it may prove too late as trimester pregnant females are the target of a serial killer.

This frightening tale will leave readers saying "no way" throughout the reading, but at the end will realize with some of the headline atrocities in the news that this plot could happen. The storyline grips the audience switching between the killer and several pregnant women (the above paragraphs highlights one key potential victim) so that the audience sees various perspectives. Wendy Corsi Staub writes a frightening suspense thriller that grabs the attention of the audience with the comparison of a matricidal serial killer vs. pregnant victims going through the months of what should be joyful occasions.

ISBN: 0786016426

Harriet Klausner