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The Stolen Twin

Cover Reveal: “The Taking”

December 10, 2021 by Michele Pariza Wacek Leave a Comment

It’s here! Another installment in The Riverview Mysteries series. Check it out: It’s on preorder and set for a July 12, 2022 release date. Here’s a sneak peek at the description: Twenty-four years ago, five-year-old Tori walked into her newborn brother’s room in the middle of the night and discovered a figure abducting him. The only […]

Filed Under: Books, News Tagged With: mirror image, mystery, psychological suspense, psychological thrillers, Riverview Mysteries, romantic suspense, The Stolen Twin

Announcing the FREE MPW Virtual Book Club

February 26, 2021 by Michele Pariza Wacek 3 Comments

Virtual Book Club

Full disclosure: I’ve been wanting to start a virtual book club for like, well, forever. (Yes, I’ll admit it. I’m jealous of Oprah and Reese Witherspoon.) I can’t tell you how many times I thought to myself  “one day, I would love a book club just like Oprah and Reese have.” Until the one day […]

Filed Under: Book Clubs, Books Tagged With: book club, It Began With a Lie, mirror image, mystery, psychological thriller, psychological thrillers, romantic suspense, Secrets of Redemption, suspense, The Evil That Was Done, The Stolen Twin, This Happened to Jessica, virtual book club

Generic Book Club Questions for Every Fiction Genre

November 8, 2019 by Michele Pariza Wacek 6 Comments

Generic Book Club Questions

When Amazon blew open the doors of the traditional publishing model and paved the way for Indie authors to compete and get their books directly into the hands of their readers, there was a lot to celebrate. Especially for book clubs. Now you have soooo many more books to choose from! But there was a […]

Filed Under: Book Clubs, Books Tagged With: book club, It Began With a Lie, mirror image, mystery, psychological thriller, psychological thrillers, romantic suspense, Secrets of Redemption, suspense, The Evil That Was Done, The Stolen Twin, This Happened to Jessica

10 Twisted Tales for Halloween

September 27, 2019 by Michele Pariza Wacek 4 Comments

There’s nothing quite like a twisted psychological thriller or scary ghost story to get you in the mood for Halloween … The ultimate “things are not as they seem” holiday … For which people hide their true face behind masks and costumes, and you just never know if you’re going to get a treat … […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Caroline Mitchell, Darcy Coates, Edgar Allan Poe, Ghost Gifts, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, horror, It Began With a Lie, Laura Spinella, Lisa Jewell, Little Darlings, Melanie Golding, mystery, psychological thriller, Ray Bradbury, Secrets of Redemption, Silent Victim, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Evil That Was Done, The Haunting of Ashbury House, The Stolen Twin, Then She Was Gone, This Happened to Jessica

5 Back-to-School Mysteries and Thrillers

August 9, 2019 by Michele Pariza Wacek Leave a Comment

It’s that time of year again … when parents everywhere breathe a deep sigh of relief as they no longer are in charge of keeping their youngsters busy for a good eight hours a day. With that in mind, I thought it would be fun if us adults went back to school, too. The following […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Christine, Elizabeth George, Kara Thomas, Little Monsters, Michele Pariza Wacek, Michele PW, Minka Kent, mystery, psychological thriller, psychological thrillers, Stephen King, The Perfect Roommate, The Punishment She Deserves, The Stolen Twin, thrillers

Book Club Discussion Questions PERFECT for Psychological Thrillers, Mysteries, Supernatural and Horror Stories

July 12, 2019 by Michele Pariza Wacek 3 Comments

A few years back, someone posted a question on Goodreads asking if any book club discussion questions existed for my book, The Stolen Twin. Even though it had never occurred to me to provide them, the question still gave me pause. I’m an English Major, so I always thought of  “literary” books as discussion question […]

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Want to Read the First Chapter of “The Stolen Twin?”

April 10, 2019 by Michele Pariza Wacek 2 Comments

Chapter 1 My life has been dominated by two dreams. In the first, I see my twin sister Cat at seven, the last time I ever saw her. She is all pink and golden – hair hanging in yellow ringlets, dancing blue eyes, rosy cheeks. She is beautiful, my sister. Light, sweet, charming. My opposite. […]

Filed Under: Books, Short Stories & Fiction Tagged With: mystery, new adult, psychological thriller, psychological thrillers, romantic suspense, suspense, The Stolen Twin, young adult

Announcing: The Completion of the First Draft of “This Happened to Jessica”!

March 22, 2018 by Michele Pariza Wacek 2 Comments

Wow. Just. Wow. All my books have a bit of a story behind the writing. “Mirror Image” (which I wrote first but published second) took me about twenty years to write. I got the initial idea when I was a teenager, and it took all that time to get a real handle on how that […]

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“Mirror Image” Launches Tomorrow! (Plus The Story Behind The Story)

May 26, 2016 by Michele Pariza Wacek 2 Comments

Lots of excitement here in PW land as we’re getting ready for the big launch of “Mirror Image.” You can grab your copy right here. And, just like “The Stolen Twin,” this novel has quite a backstory too. It all started when I was a teenager and on a family vacation in New Hampshire. While […]

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The Story Behind “The Stolen Twin”

November 17, 2015 by Michele Pariza Wacek 4 Comments

The Stolen Twin

I actually wrote “The Stolen Twin” over 10 years ago. And then I stuffed in a desk drawer (well, to be completely honest, I actually stuffed it into a file on my computer, but that doesn’t have the same impact as stuffing it in a desk drawer) and left it there for over 10 years. […]

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