Wreck Your Heart: A Mystery, (Paperback)

<p><b>From award-winning author Lori Rader-Day, <i>Wreck Your Heart</i> is an engaging, "wisecracking and wonderful" crime novel with a big heart, about</b><b> a country and <i>mid</i>western singer</b><b> out to catch her big break before family--or murder--wrecks everything.</b> </p><p>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 <i>went</i>, taking the rent money with him. </p><p>So Dahlia is back to square one, relying on Alex McPhee--<i>again</i>. 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. </p><p>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--<i>Dahlia's</i> 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. </p><p>Though no one is using the word <i>sister</i> 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.</p>

• Wreck Your Heart: A Mystery, (Paperback)
• Author: Lori Rader-Day
• ISBN: 9781250393753
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-12-08
• Page Count: 352