Wreck Your Heart: A Mystery [Hardcover]

From award-winning author Lori Rader-Day,Wreck Your Heartis an engaging, wisecracking and wonderful crime novel with a big heart, abouta country andmidwestern singerout to catch her big break before familyor murderwrecks everything.

Dahlia Doll Devine had the kind of hardscrabble beginning that could launch a thousand broken-hearted country songs, but now shes the star of her own stage at McPhees Tavern. As part of Chicagosyes, Chicagoscountry 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 andwent, taking the rent money with him.

So Dahlia is back to square one, relying on Alex McPheeagain. Alex helped her out of a bad situation when she was a kid living rough with her mother. Now hes part landlord, part band booster, all-around rescuer. Its just that Dahlia wishes she didnt keep giving him reasons to have to do it.

Just as Dahlia suspects shes scraped rock bottom, the mother she hasnt 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 motherDahlia'smother, 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 wordsisterany time soon, Dahlia lets herself be drawn into reuniting the family that might have been hers. But when a body is discovered outside McPhees Tavern, the crime threatens not just the place Dahlia has made into a home, but everything shes believed about her past, her dreams for the future, and the people she was just, maybe, beginning to let into her heart.