Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Most Likely to Die

I picked up Most Likely to Die because one of the authors, Wendy Corsi Staub, is probably my favorite suspense authors. She, along with Beverly Barton and Lisa Jackson, worked together to write this novel, and I picked it up on it's release date. I was glad I did! Four out of five stars.

It's been twenty years since the night Jake Marcott was brutally murdered at St. Elizabeth High School. It's a night that shattered the lives of Lindsay Farrell, Kristen Daniels, and Rachel Alsace. It's a night they'll never forget. A killer will make sure of that...

A 20-year reunion has been schelduled for St. Elizabeth's. For some alumni, very special invitations have been sent: their smiling senior pictures slashed by an angry red line...

Three women have been marked for death. Tonight, as the music plays, and the doors of St. Elizabeth are sealed, a killer will finish what was started long ago, and the sins of the past will be paid for in blood...

I loved this book. The writing was done very well, and the transistions between the authors were seamless. The suspense was high, though I was able to figure out who the killer was about halfway through the book. I loved the main characters, Rachel, Lindsay, and Kristen and am happy to see that both Rachel and Lindsay are characters in Staub's and Barton's upcoming novels. I will be sure to get those next month. I loved getting to know the three girls through the sections and to see their friendship grow close again after 20 years of separation.

If you haven't read Staub yet, I cannot highly reccommend her novels. She also writes under the name Wendy Markham and has written for Red Dress Ink the Slightly series. Those are hilarious and a new one is going to be released later this year, I believe.

Up next is Rachel Gibson's True Confessions. Just grabbed it off of the TBR bookshelf.

2 comments:

Jana said...

I've so gotta pick this one up. I've read and loved all of her RDI's. :-)

Kristie said...

It is a suspense, and though she only writes part of it, it is good. I know some of her older romantic suspense were recently released at a lower price.