When Secrets Bind and Kill

What happened in those Massachusetts woods the night Rachel Lorant died on her birthday? Rachel's four sorority sisters pledge never to reveal what they saw in the Berkshires, so close to their college campus. Now, ten years later, each receives a card in the mail from-Rachel! Someone knows what happened and is sending deadly warnings.

In Wendy Corsi Staub's newest thriller, Don't Scream, the past returns with murderous intent. Brynn Costella, one of the four sorority sisters, is terrified. She didn't want any part of what occurred that sickening night. A mother of two, she will do what it takes to protect her family, matching wits with a killer, a twisted psychopath who is closer than she thinks.

"I like the idea of secrets and keeping connected to the past," says Straub. "It's provocative."

In her own life, she's maintained friendships from high school and college and likes to keep those past connections alive. Yet she wonders, "Do we really know each other?" When she hasn't seen someone for a while, she notices how people change and appear different.

Staub set the story in the Berkshires because she wanted a place that was insular, detached, beautiful and transient, as college towns can be, she says, yet not so far from a large metropolis like New York or Boston. It's also the place where she and her husband shared their own intimate past. Honeymooning in those remote mountains 15 years ago, she vowed to return but never did except in writing Don't Scream.

This spring, though, she plans to return to the Berkshires on her book tour.

Wendy Corsi Staub is a New York Times bestselling and award winning author of over sixty books. She has won two RWA Rita award. A number of her titles have been featured selections for Mystery Guild, Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club and Large Print Book Club. She grew up in rural southwestern New York and lives in a suburb of Manhattan with her husband and two sons. Read an excerpt from Don't Scream.