Lori Rader-Day is the Edgar® Award-nominated and Agatha, Anthony, and Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author of
The Death of Us,
Death at Greenway,
The Lucky One,
Under a Dark Sky,
The Day I Died,
Little Pretty Things, and
The Black Hour. She lives in Chicago, where she is co-chair of the mystery readers’ festival Midwest Mystery Conference (fka Murder and Mayhem in Chicago) and served as 2019-2020 national president of Sisters in Crime. She teaches creative writing for Northwestern University’s School of Professional Studies.
At CrimeReads Rader-Day tagged nine crime novels featuring characters who choose who they include at their crowded tables. One title on the list:
Quiet Neighbors by Catriona McPherson
When Jude’s life falls apart, she goes to the last place she remembers being happy. A bookshop, of course. The shop is a mess and so is the owner. Then a pregnant girl shows up, with an agenda, and Jude gets a chance to tidy up more than stacks of books.
Read about
the other entries on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue