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Lori Rader-Day – Wreck Your Heart

Lori Rader-Day Wreck Your Heart review and information of the content of the new crime novel by the American author. Minotaur Books will publish the new Lori Rader-Day novel, on January 6, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Lori Rader-Day Wreck Your Heart reviews

  • “Lori Rader Day is one of the most creative–and boldest–voices in contemporary crime fiction. She constantly explores new narratives and new viewpoints. Wreck Your Heart is one of her best novels yet.” (Sara Paretsky)
  • “Wise-cracking and wonderful, Philip Marlowe meets VI Warshawski. A love letter to country music and to Chicago, but very much more than that. Nobody does strong women better than Rader-Day.” (Ann Cleeves)
  • “Lori Rader-Day’s writing is phenomenal. Dahlia Devine has a voice so unique, clear, and strong, she’ll break your heart. This book absolutely sings.” (Elle Cosimano)

Lori Rader-Day Wreck Your Heart

Wreck Your Heart

  • Author: Lori Rader-Day (United States)
  • Book type: American crime novel
  • Publisher: Minotaur Books
  • Released: January, 2026
  • Length: 352 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 29.00 / $ 14.99 / $ 26.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new Lori Rayder-Day crime novel

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.

Lori Rader-Day was born March 21, 1973 in Lebanon, Indiana. She is the Edgar Award−nominated and Agatha, Anthony, and Mary Higgins Clark Award−winning author of Death at Greenway, The Lucky One, Under a Dark Sky, The Day I Died and others. Lori cochairs the crime fiction readers’ event Midwest Mystery Conference and teaches creative writing at Northwestern University. She lives in Chicago with her husband, Greg, and their dog.

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Sarah Crouch – The Briars

Sarah Crouch The Briars review and information of novel and literary thriller. Atria Books will publish the novel by Sarah Crouch, on January 13, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Sarah Crouch The Briars reviews

  • “One of my favourite reads of the year, The Briars is a show stopping, accomplished mystery that both captivated and intrigued me in equal measure – I couldn’t put it down. From the very first page, Sarah Crouch draws you into the beautifully realised setting of Lake Lumin in the Pacific Northwest with lush, lyrical descriptions that left me both longing to visit and deeply chilled. With nuanced, likeable characters, Crouch weaves a complex plot and tightens the tension until breaking point as murder haunts the lake and the past returns to shadow the present. A complex, thrilling page turner that will stay with you long after you finish reading.” (Sarah Pearse, Author of The Sanatorium)
  • “Sarah Crouch’s delicate and tantalizing prose in The Briars builds the scaffolding for an emotionally charged mystery as a troubled game warden probes for answers in the wilds of the lush Pacific Northwest — and in the vagaries of the treacherous landscape within. With complicated twists that build to a satisfying surprise, The Briars delivers a powerful emotional experience readers won’t be able to shake long after they put the book down. One of the best books I’ve read this year.” (Julie Carrick Dalton, author of The Last Beekeeper)

Sarah Crouch The Briars

The Briars

  • Author: Sarah Crouch (United States)
  • Book type: literary thriller
  • Publisher: Atria Books
  • To be released: January 13, 2026
  • Length: 320 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 29.00 / $ 14.99 / $25.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the crime novel of Sarah Crouch

A lush and atmospheric novel of suspense following a young woman whose job as a game warden puts her in the path of a murderer in a small town eager to protect its own.

Desperate to escape a relationship gone bad, Annie Heston flees north to accept a job as a game warden in Lake Lumin, a picturesque town in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest.

A cougar has been spotted in the area, and as Annie warns the community of the threat, she quickly discovers that not everyone in the tight-knit town is welcoming of outsiders, except for Daniel Barela, a reclusive carpenter who lives in the shadow of the mountain. They form an instant bond, though Annie soon comes to realize there is more to his past than meets the eye.

When the body of a young woman is found in the briars that border Daniel’s property, the peace Annie has found in Lake Lumin shatters. As she assists the local sheriff with the investigation, Annie must rely on her wilderness training and intuition to find a murderer hiding in plain sight.

Urgent and emotionally complex, The Briars is a captivating literary thriller that marries an exploration of human nature with a plot as thorny and twisted as the brambles for which it is named.

Sarah Crouch is born August 22, 1989 in Hockinson, Washington. She is the author of Middletide and The Briars, literary thrillers set in the Pacific Northwest, where she was raised. She is also known for her accolades in the world of athletics as a professional marathon runner.

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