
New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub is the award-winning author of more than ninety novels, best known for the single title psychological suspense 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. Her critically acclaimed Lily Dale traditional mystery series centers around a widowed single mom—and skeptic—who moves to a town populated by spiritualists who talk to the dead. Titles include NINE LIVES; SOMETHING BURIED, SOMETHING BLUE; DEAD OF WINTER; and PROSE AND CONS, with a fifth book under contract. Wendy has written five suspense trilogies for HarperCollins/William Morrow. The most recent, The Foundlings (LITTLE GIRL LOST, DEAD SILENCE, and THE BUTCHER’S DAUGHTER), spans fifty years in the life of a woman left as a newborn in a Harlem church, now an investigative genealogist helping others uncover their biological roots while still searching for her own. Written as Wendy Markham, Wendy’s novel HELLO, IT’S ME was a recent Hallmark television movie starring Kellie Martin. Her short story “Cat Got Your Tongue” appeared in R.L. Stine’s MWA middle grade anthology SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN and her short story “The Elephant in the Room” is included in the Anthony Award-nominated inaugural anthology SHATTERING GLASS. A three-time finalist for the Simon and Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award, she’s won an RWA Rita Award, an RT Award for Career Achievement in Suspense, the 2007 RWA-NYC Golden Apple Award for Lifetime Achievement, and five WLA Washington Irving Prizes for Fiction. She previously published a dozen adult suspense novels with Kensington Books and the critically-acclaimed young adult paranormal series “Lily Dale” (Walker/Bloomsbury). Earlier in her career, she published a broad range of genres under her own name and pseudonyms, and was a co-author/ghostwriter for several celebrities. Raised in Dunkirk, NY, Wendy graduated from SUNY Fredonia and launched a publishing career in New York City. She was Associate Editor at Silhouette Books before selling her first novel in 1992. Married with two sons, she lives in the NYC suburbs. An active supporter of the American Cancer Society, she was a featured speaker at Northern Westchester’s 2015 Relay for Life and 2012 National Spokesperson for the Sandy Rollman Ovarian Cancer Foundation. She has fostered for various animal rescue organizations.
Series
Books

Summer Lightning
1993

Witch Hunt
1995

Sleepwalker
2012

Connecting
2008

The Stranger Vanishes
2022

Cold Hearted
2014

The Last To Know
2001

The Black Widow
2014

Little Girl Lost
2018

Blue Moon
2016

The Final Victim
2006

Kiss Her Goodbye
2004

First Thrills
2010

Dead of Winter
A Lily Dale Mystery
2017

Dying Breath
2008

Halloween Party
1994

Hell to Pay
2011

Dead Before Dark
2009

The Perfect Stranger
2014

Live to Tell
2010

Nightwatcher
2012

All the Way Home
2000

Dead Silence
2019

Discovering
2009

She Loves Me Not
2003

Blood Red
2015

Voodoo Moon
2000

The Other Family
2022

The Fourth Girl
2025

Scared To Death
2010

The Butcher's Daughter
2020

Windfall
2023

Awakening
2009

The Good Sister
2013

Nine Lives
2015

Lullaby And Goodnight
2005

Prose and Cons
2021

This Boy Is Mine
2001

Something Buried, Something Blue
A Lily Dale Mystery
2016

Fade to Black
2012

Dearly Beloved
1996

Believing
2008

More Than This
2000

Bone White
2017

Don't Scream
2007

In The Blink Of An Eye
2013

Shadowkiller
2013