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)
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.