novels she writes under her own name. Those books and the women’s fiction written under the pseudonym Wendy Markham have also appeared on the USA Today, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Bookscan bestseller lists.
Her current standalone suspense novel, The Other Family, is about a picture-perfect family that that moves into a picture-perfect house. But not everything is as it seems, and the page-turner concludes “with a wallop of a twist,” according to #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben.
At CrimeReads Staub tagged six of "the best surprise endings in contemporary fiction," including:
The Collective by Alison GaylinRead about the other entries on the list.
Alison Gaylin’s latest thriller is a taut, harrowing tale of grief and revenge, with a brittle-but-not-broken heroine who’s lost her only child to a killer who escapes punishment. While Camille breaks your heart, she’s hardly a pitiful victim. Emerging as a complex character whose strengths and weaknesses are at times exquisitely indistinguishable. This is one of those novels that you’ll never imagine will conclude the way it does—and upon reflection, you’ll realize it was inevitable.
The Page 69 Test: The Collective.
--Marshal Zeringue
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