Little Pretty Things, Lori RaderDay
Little Pretty Things, Lori RaderDay
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Little Pretty Things
A Novel

Author: Lori Rader-Day

Narrator: Ann Marie Gideon

Unabridged: 9 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 08/28/2018

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

OLD RIVALRIES NEVER DIE. BUT SOME RIVALS DO.Juliet Townsend is used to losing. Back in high school, she lost every track team race to her best friend, Madeleine Bell. Ten years later, she’s still running behind, stuck in a dead-end job cleaning rooms at the Mid-Night Inn, a one-star motel that attracts only the cheap or the desperate. But what life won’t provide, Juliet takes.Then one night, Maddy checks in. Well-dressed, flashing a huge diamond ring, and as beautiful as ever, Maddy has it all. By the next morning, though, Juliet is no longer jealous of Maddy—she’s the chief suspect in her murder.To protect herself, Juliet investigates the circumstances of her friend’s death. But what she learns about Maddy’s life might cost Juliet everything she didn’t realize she had.

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

Goodreads review by Deanna

Juliet Townsend's life hasn't gone according to plan. Well to be honest, it hasn't really gone anywhere. After her father's death, her mother was unable to cope so Juliet dropped out of college to come home and 10 years later she hasn't left. Juliet works at the Mid-Night, a seedy motel where she cl......more

Goodreads review by Bren fall in love with the sea.

“Running quiets the voice in your head,” ― Lori Rader-Day, Little Pretty Things DNF. I liked it at first however the gloomy hotel got to me or maybe it is just I have read to many books like this. I started getting a bit gloomy myself and though I do not like to DNF, I will do it if I cannot get into......more

Goodreads review by Jaylia3

I have a special fondness for stories about far from perfect, less than amazing characters. Throw in an insular small town setting and I’m generally hooked--which certainly proved true with mystery thriller Little Pretty Things; I could barely put the book down to get on with my own life. Juliet Tow......more

Goodreads review by Dale

Juliet Townsend’s life had not worked out the way she thought it would. Even though she spent years coming second in every athletics race to her friend Madeleine Bell, Juliet still thought she would one day leave town and be successful. It never happened. Ten years later she and Madeleine have lost......more

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