Live to Tell

Live to Tell: 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.

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  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. — Source: Apple iTunes Store

  

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  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. — Source: Audible

  

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  Publish Date

  Mar 1, 2010

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  ISBN

  0061895067

  ISBN-13

  9780061895067

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  Pages

  400

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  Product Description / Editorial Review

  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 . . . — Source: Amazon

  Customer Reviews

  Not Her Best

  I usually love WCS books, but I found this one to be very slow and plodding -- perhaps because the "secret" she was trying to keep was pretty obvious, or perhaps because so much of the book seemed to be everyone moping about Nick's betrayal of Lauren.
  
  Hope the sequel is better.

  Rating: 3
  Live to Tell review by A Reader, 2010-07-10

  Another good book by WCS

  "Live to Tell" started off a little slow, I thought, but picked up speed as the story went along. There are 3 different families involved and you get pieces of each of their stories. As the story nears it's end, the stories come together. I have to say, while I usually am wrong in figuring out the killers in Ms. Staub's books, I was right with this one.
  An entertaining read and I would consider this a good beach read as well.

  Rating: 4
  Live to Tell review by Fuzzy Lizard, 2010-06-20

  You Won't Be Sorry

  One would think that Wendy Corsi Staub is seven people inhabiting the body of one, writing thrillers and young adult books under her own name while penning women's fiction titles under a pseudonym. What is more impressive than the quantity of her work, however, is its sustained quality. Reading her is akin to watching someone walk a tightrope over Niagara Falls: you wonder how long that person is going to be able to keep doing it without slipping. The answer --- at least in Staub's case --- is not yet, if ever, given that her latest work is one of her best to date.
  
  The MacGuffin that propels LIVE TO TELL is a stuffed pink rabbit that belongs to Sadie Walsh, a four-year-old girl whose parents, Nick and Lauren, have just separated. The rabbit, named Fred, has gone missing after an excursion into New York, possibly in Grand Central Station. Nick, the absent father, is shamed into retrieving Fred from the Grand Central Lost and Found. Though he dutifully makes the effort, he collects the wrong pink stuffed animal. Sounds like a Helen Fuller Orton story, right? Well, it's not. Someone wants the stuffed animal that Sadie now has and will do anything to get it. Secreted within it, you see, is a memory stick that has some extremely interesting background data on a political candidate.
  
  In lesser hands this could have been a comedic novel, but LIVE TO TELL is no comedy, as there is some domestic drama that darkens the picture. Lauren has been summarily dumped by her husband. And --- this is pure genius --- Nick has left her for an older woman. Not much older, but the conventional wisdom is that men of a certain age automatically stray with a (much) younger woman, though the book presents a vastly different and more highly believable scenario. The devastation visited upon Nick and Lauren's two other, older children by Nick's absence is quietly but effectively portrayed as well, even as they go about their lives, unaware that the entire family is being observed with bad intent and in plain sight. And where is the stuffed animal with the goods? Only Sadie knows for sure, and she isn't telling.
  
  LIVE TO TELL, though it stands very well entirely on its own, is the first book of a trilogy that, at least from initial appearances, plays out the thick thread of unintended consequence that radiates bad actions. A preview of the second installment, SCARED TO DEATH (to be published later this year), is included at the end of the novel. It appears that this upcoming book may be even better than the current one. My best advice: read LIVE TO TELL now and wait for the next two volumes. You won't be sorry.

  Rating: 5
  Live to Tell review by Bookreporter.com, 2010-06-08

  Hang On to Your Hats & Glasses...

  ...because you are going to take a very bumpy ride through the sleepy fictional Westchester, New York town of Glenhaven!
  
  This bedroom community, just a train ride from New York City is a tentacle of secrets that stretch from Manhattan. Newly divorced mother of Lucy, 14, Ryan, 12 and Sadie, 4, Lauren Walsh is unwittingly at the hub of a series of mysteries.
  
  The first mystery comes to light when Sadie loses the pink stuffed rabbit she has had since birth. Lauren calls her estranged husband to go to Grand Central Station to see if anyone turned it in. Instead of a pink rabbit, he comes back with a pink dog, much to Sadie's displeasure.
  
  The dog is more than just a stuffed toy. It has a role in a series of secrets and mysteries that can undo an entire nation.
  
  Wendy Corsi Staub is a master at creating a web of suspense. Each one of her books contains an interlocking series of mysteries and readers are left trying to guess the solution to the mysteries. What do a couple whose son disappeared 14 years earlier; a ruthless congressman with his eyes on the gubanatorial race and a city kid have in common, if anything? And what does the mysterious figure at the opening of the story have to do with the mysterious pink dog and why is it such a source of vital importance? Are any of the people in Glenhaven involved? And what does a wealthy Manhattan couple with a 1-year-old son have in common with this eclectic cast of characters?
  
  With cliffhanging brilliance, Wendy Corsi Staub takes her readers on a deliciously bumpy ride as red herrings are thrown onto the Mystery Trail. This book opens with a crescendo and ends on a crescendo as well.
  
  I am eagerly awaiting the sequel!

  Rating: 5
  Live to Tell review by BeatleBangs1964, 2010-05-24

  Great book!!

  This book grabs you from the first page and doesn't let you go til the end! I loved it!!

  Rating: 5
  Live to Tell review by I, 2010-05-06

  

• Live to Tell - Mass Market Paperback

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  Publish Date

  Feb 2010

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  ISBN

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  ISBN-13

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  Pages

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  Biography

  Wendy Corsi Staub is the author of ten novels of suspense, including the New York Times bestsellers Don't Scream, Most Likely To Die, The Final Victim, and She Loves Me Not. She is currently working on her next suspense novel.

  Publishers Weekly

  Staub (Dead Before Dark) follows an innocuous stuffed animal into a widening spiral of intrigue in this absorbing series launch. Newly single mom Lauren Walsh asks her ex, Nick, to look for their daughter’s toy rabbit in the lost and found at Grand Central Station. In the heart of Manhattan, Congressman Garvey Quinn is riding a popularity wave that could carry him to the White House—but only if he can keep a certain dark secret from bubbling into public view. And in a small Connecticut town, Elsa and Brett Cavalon are still grieving 14 years after their son was kidnapped from their backyard. The connections among these troubled families are slow to reveal themselves, but once Staub’s brilliant characterizations and top-notch narrative skills grab hold, they don’t let go. (Mar.)

  Synopsis

  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 trutha truth this cold-blooded mastermind would never let her live to tell . . .

  
  — Source: Barnes & Noble

  Customer Reviews

  It is a great title. I really like her books, you can hardly put them down!!

  I had to get used to the characters in the book in the beginning and all of the different stories that each of them had. I thought the ending should have been in more detail with the death of Nick and his girlfriend. Because it really doesn't share any information with how Lauren told the kids and what was going to happen after that. I read the preface of her next book and I can see that it is going to continue on with some of the characters but not all of the characters. I read this book in two days! I have read most of her books and I really enjoy her writing and the suspense in her books! Each story is filled with thrilling and captivating information and story lines. You can really get involved with the characters and put yourself in their shoes. I like how you really don't know who the "Villians" and then the characters that you think are guilty really aren't! Like for instance Sam! He ended up to be an innocent bystander and was really trying to help Lauren and her children!! I wish that she would turn out books faster than she does now....She is an author like Mary Higgins Clark. I can never figure out the "Villians" and character in her books are also very difficult to figure out. I am looking forward to reading some more of her books and I hope that they will have the same thrill as the rest of her books!!

  Rating: 5
  Live to Tell review by Anonymous, 2010-05-17

  Excellent Title!

  I enjoyed this book very much.

  Rating: 4
  Live to Tell review by neclem1935, 2010-04-10

  

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