About
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub has published over 100 novels under her own name and various pseudonyms including Wendy Markham. The seventh title in her Lily Dale Mystery series is TOIL AND TROUBLE (Severn House, July 2024), and her psychological suspense novel THE FOURTH GIRL (Thomas & Mercer, April 2025 will be followed by a sequel, THE LOST SUMMER (Thomas & Mercer, April 2026), with a contract for two additional standalone crime novels coming in 2027-28.
She’s been honored five times with the Westchester Library Association Washington Irving Prize for Fiction; has won an RWA Rita Award, an RT Award for Career Achievement in Suspense, and the 2007 RWA-NYC Golden Apple Award for Lifetime Achievement; and is a three-time finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. She lives in Katonah, NY with her husband, three rescue cats, and occasionally a twentysomething son or two.
Featured Work
THE FOURTH GIRL
On the anniversary of a teen’s disappearance, three friends face a deadly hometown reunion in this twisty suspense novel by a New York Times bestselling author.
On prom night, Caroline Winterfield walked away from the ruins of an abandoned mansion called Haven Cliff and into the woods…never to be seen again. Only her three best friends know what really happened. But a secret is a secret, and a promise is a promise―even when it shatters lifelong friendships.
On the twenty-fifth anniversary of that night, Midge, Kelly, and Talia reunite at Haven Cliff, now a gleaming architectural jewel. But they aren’t alone. Someone is watching. Someone who knows what really happened to Caroline―and to the man who now lies dead a stone’s throw from where she was last seen.
Police detective Midge knows she’s dealing with a murder the moment she sees the item clutched in his lifeless hand. Only three other people in the world would grasp its significance. That means Kelly and Talia are either involved or in danger, because Caroline is long gone…or is she?
