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SUMMARY:WRECK YOUR HEART: Lori Rader-Day in conversation with Andrew Ludington
DESCRIPTION: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. \nJoin Lori Rader-Day at Blue House Books on Thursday\, January 8th at 6:30 p.m.\, to talk about her newest release\, “Wreck Your Heart”. Lori will be discussing her latest book with fellow Midwest author\, Andrew Ludington (“Splinter Effect”)\, answering questions from the audience\, and signing books! \nThis event requires a $5 reservation deposit. Get all the details here: https://www.blue-house-books.com/events/3732820260108 \nAbout WRECK YOUR HEART: \nDahlia “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.\nSo 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. \nJust 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. \nThough 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. \nAbout LORI RADER-DAY: \nLori Rader-Day is the Edgar Award-nominated and Agatha\, Anthony\, and Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author of “Wreck Your Heart” (forthcoming January 2026)\, “The Death of Us”\, “Death at Greenway”\, “The Lucky One”\, “Under a Dark Sky”\, and others. Lori earned a master of arts in creative nonfiction and a master of fine arts in creative writing. She lives in Chicago\, where she co-chairs the crime fiction readers’ event Midwest Mystery Conference and teaches creative writing at Northwestern University. Visit her at www.LoriRaderDay.com. \nAbout SPLINTER EFFECT: \nIn “Splinter Effect”\, an action-packed debut by Andrew Ludington\, time traveling archaeologist Rabbit Ward maneuvers through the past to recover a long-lost\, precious menorah hidden in ancient Rome. \nSmithsonian archaeologist Rabbit Ward travels through time on sponsored expeditions to the past to secure precious artifacts moments before they are lost to history. Although exceptional at his job\, Rabbit is not without faults. In a spectacular failure twenty years ago\, he lost both the menorah of the second temple and his hot-headed mentee\, Aaron. So\, when new evidence reveals the menorah’s reappearance in 6th century Constantinople\, Rabbit seizes the chance for redemption. \nBut from the moment he arrives in the past\, things start to go wrong. Rabbit quickly finds out that his prime competition\, an unlicensed and annoyingly appealing “stringer” named Helen\, is also in Constantinople hunting the menorah. And that’s only the beginning. The oppressed Jewish population of the city is primed for revolution\, Constantinople’s leading gang seems to have it out for Rabbit personally\, and someone local is interested enough in the menorah to kill for it. \nAs the past closes in on him and his previous failures compound\, will Rabbit be able to recover the menorah before it’s once again lost in time? With new and old dangers alike hiding behind every corner\, time might just be up for Rabbit’s redemption—and possibly his life. \nAbout ANDREW LUDINGTON: \nAndrew Ludington writes transportive adventure stories intended to make you forget your commute. He graduated from Kenyon College with a BA in English Literature and lives in Evanston\, IL where he moonlights as a technologist for Northwestern University. “Splinter Effect” is his first novel.
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SUMMARY:Meet & Greet with Peter O'Keefe
DESCRIPTION:“White Flight” is a fast-paced\, nail-biting little gothic novella that delivers something unexpected: a seriously squirm-worthy look at American racism – (CemeteryDance.com review). \nJoin Peter O’Keefe at Blue House Books on Saturday\, January 17th\, from 12 to 3 p.m. to help celebrate his newest horror novel\, “White Flight”. Peter will be chatting with readers and signing books\, so stop by anytime during the event to meet this Racine horror author! \nAbout WHITE FLIGHT: \nJoel and Willow Ward are white. Their Black teenage daughter\, adopted at birth\, was just killed by the police. \nNow\, their house is trying to kill them\, and the grieving parents are trying to understand why. \nAnd survive the night. \n“WHITE FLIGHT by Peter O’Keefe opened with a roar and then I couldn’t work my finger fast enough to keep up. A married couple attempts to navigate an unspoken tragedy haunting every corner of their dream house – and every layer of their dreams. But there’s an undercurrent of racial disquiet lingering in the air that kept me on edge\, like I was waiting on the other shoe to drop. O’Keefe deftly sets the landscape and paints a picture of a home wrapped in overwhelming sadness and dysfunction\, but he also builds an unsettling suspense that makes you clench your throat because you just know there’s something else there. And there is…something else.” — Kenya Moss-Dyme\, author of “Seed” \nAbout PETER O’KEEFE: \nPeter O’Keefe is a writer and filmmaker\, born and raised in Detroit\, now living in Racine\, Wisconsin. His first novel “Counted with the Dead” —a re-imagining of Frankenstein set in late-90s Detroit—was released by Grendel Press in 2024. Peter has worked in episodic television and feature films and written TV movies for German networks. \nHis narrative short films have screened at a variety of film festivals and Peter’s documentary about visual artists in the American Midwest\, “Dreaming in Public\, Making Art in the Real World” was awarded a Chicago Regional Emmy. His short stories have appeared in various literary and online journals and anthologies.
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SUMMARY:THE FAIR WEATHER FRIEND: Jessie Garcia in Kenosha!
DESCRIPTION:In this riveting thriller from the author of “The Business Trip”\, Jessie Garcia’s signature multi-POV\, rapid-fire style is back in “The Fair Weather Friend”\, a novel that will propel you into the heart of a mystery no one could have forecasted. \nJoin Jessie at Blue House Books on Wednesday\, January 21st\, at 6:30 p.m. for a presentation and reading from her sophomore novel. Jessie will be also answering questions from the audience and signing books! \nThis event requires a $5 reservation deposit. Get all the details here: https://www.blue-house-books.com/events/3720620260121 \nAbout THE FAIR WEATHER FRIEND: \nIt’s always sunny in Detroit for Faith Richards. The popular TV meteorologist\, endearingly referred to as “The Fair Weather Friend” by her viewers\, has the world by the tail. But one night\, Faith leaves work on a dinner break and never returns. Her body is found the next morning. \nThe town is reeling\, suspects emerge\, and long-buried secrets are uncovered. While her allies rally\, her list of adversaries also grows. Little does anyone know that only the deepest secrets will expose the truth. \nAbout JESSIE GARCIA: \nJessie Garcia is an award-winning sports journalist who has risen the ranks in television news\, first as an anchor/reporter\, then to newsroom management. She is the News Director at the CBS affiliate in Milwaukee. Her non-fiction books “My Life with the Green and Gold: Tales from 20 Years of Sportscasting” and “Going for Wisconsin Gold: Stories of our State Olympians” won Midwest Book Awards\, and her documentary “Leaps and Bounds: The Men Who Changed Track and Field” was featured in over a dozen film festivals. She also taught journalism at four universities. A native of Madison\, WI\, Jessie has two adult sons and resides in Milwaukee with her husband\, dog and cat.
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