The Day I Died, Lori RaderDay
The Day I Died, Lori RaderDay
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The Day I Died
A Novel

Author: Lori Rader-Day

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 12 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/11/2017


Synopsis

From the award-winning author of Little Pretty Things comes this gripping, unforgettable tale of a mother's desperate search for a lost boy.Anna Winger can know people better than they know themselves with only a glance—at their handwriting. Hired out by companies wanting to land trustworthy employees and by the lovelorn hoping to find happiness, Anna likes to keep the real-life mess of other people at arm’s length and on paper. But when she is called to use her expertise on a note left behind at a murder scene in the small town she and her son have recently moved to, the crime gets under Anna’s skin and rips open her narrow life for all to see. To save her son—and herself—once and for all, Anna will face her every fear, her every mistake, and the past she thought she'd rewritten.

About Lori Rader-Day

Lori Rader-Day is the Edgar Award–nominated and Anthony, Agatha, and Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning author of 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 cochair of the mystery readers’ conference Midwest Mystery Conference and teaches creative writing at Northwestern University. She served as the national president of Sisters in Crime in 2020.


Reviews

2.5 stars Once again, I am in the minority. This book has great reviews, but I struggled to get through it. I love the title and the intriguing first page. The plot was alluring; a woman, Anna Winger, a handwriting analysis expert, gets pulled into a case after a two-year-old boy goes missing. Anna, s......more

Goodreads review by Jayme

The author gave her own book a 5 star rating, (which irks me!) and though I wish I could agree (I loved Little Pretty Things!) it is just a weak 3 stars for me. I found myself wanting to skim ahead when it dragged, and then again, when it became implausible, so I could finish, and move on to the nex......more

“The Day I Died” is a thriller with a very slow start. The narrator is Anna Winger, a single mother with a fourteen-year-old son in a small town in Indiana. The reader soon learns that Anna moves frequently and she’s on the run. Author Lori Rader-Day is sparse with her clues about Anna’s past. The r......more