Wreck Your Heart
A Mystery
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- Pedido anticipado
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- Se espera: 6 ene 2026
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- $329.00
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- Pedido anticipado
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- $329.00
Descripción editorial
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.
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An aspiring country singer grapples with family turmoil and murder in this exceptional standalone from Rader-Day (The Death of Us). The action kicks off with Dahlia Devine at rock bottom: she's been evicted from her Chicago apartment after her boyfriend, Joey, fled with the couple's meager savings. A life of hardship—including a childhood spent in the care of a drug-addicted mother—has prepared her to weather the storm, but Dahlia is thrown further off her axis when her mom shows up at McPhee's Tavern, where Dahlia regularly performs with a country music cover band, after two decades of radio silence. The next morning, her mother is gone again, and a woman claiming to be Dahlia's half sister arrives trying to find her. While Dahlia absorbs these shocks, someone is murdered outside of McPhee's, and she concludes that something organized and dangerous is at play just beneath the surface of her troubles. Rader-Day excels at conjuring the sights and sounds of her Chicago setting, and Dahlia is a spunky, unforgettable heroine. The result is a consistently surprising mystery that readers will be hard-pressed to put down.
