| International Standard Book Number |
9781250393739 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
1250393736 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781250393746 ebook
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| Personal Name |
Rader-Day, Lori, 1973- author.
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| Title Statement |
Wreck your heart : a mystery / Lori Rader-Day.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
344 pages ; 25 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"From award-winning author Lori Rader-Day, Wreck Your Heart is an engaging, "wisecracking and wonderful" crime novel with a big heart, about a country and midwestern singer out to catch her big break before family -- or murder -- wrecks everything. Dahlia "Doll" Devine had the kind of hardscrabble beginning that could launch a thousand broken-hearted country songs, but now she's the star of her own stage at McPhee's Tavern. As part of Chicago's -- yes, Chicago's -- country music scene, Dahlia is an up-and-coming singer in spangles and boots of classic country tunes. Up and coming, that is, until her boyfriend Joey up and went, taking the rent money with him. So Dahlia is back to square one, relying on Alex McPhee -- again. Alex helped her out of a bad situation when she was a kid living rough with her mother. Now he's part landlord, part band booster, all-around rescuer. It's just that Dahlia wishes she didn't keep giving him reasons to have to do it. Just as Dahlia suspects she's scraped rock bottom, the mother she hasn't spoken to in twenty years shows up with something to say. The next morning, a distraught young woman arrives at the bar, asking after her missing mother -- Dahlia's mother, too, even if the missing suburban PTA mom the girl describes sounds pretty different from the one who let Dahlia down all those years ago. Though no one is using the word sister any time soon, Dahlia lets herself be drawn into reuniting the family that might have been hers. But when a body is discovered outside McPhee's Tavern, the crime threatens not just the place Dahlia has made into a home, but everything she's believed about her past, her dreams for the future, and the people she was just, maybe, beginning to let into her heart."-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women country musicians Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Country musicians Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women singers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Dysfunctional families Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Man-woman relationships Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Murder Investigation Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Chicago (Ill.) Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Thrillers (Fiction)
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Suspense fiction.
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