Die a Little (Audiobook)

from citygirl

Why: I greatly enjoyed the only other book of Abbott's that I've read, Queenpin. This book has a lovely, lovely pulp cover. It is set in what seems to be 1950s L.A., and the story concerns the narrator, Lora, a schoolteacher probably in her late twenties, and a brother to whom she is extremely cl...

from mstrust

School teacher Lora and her cop brother, Bill, live in L.A. and only have each other. Then Bill meets Alice and they marry so quickly that Lora barely has time to get used to Alice before becoming suspicious of her low-rent friend who is always bruised, and the work credentials that never appear....

from PeggyK49

I don't normally choose "modern noir" or "hardboiled" books, but I read a story by Megan Abbott in a collection (In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper) and liked that story enough to try one of her books. Die A Little was written well, I could "see" it in my...

from mikedraper

Megan Abbot's "Die A Little" brings back the 1950's and a mystery in the mode of Raymond Chandler. Lora King, a school teacher, has a close relationship to her brother, Bill, a young investigator in the DA's office. Bill meets a mystery woman named Alice and they marry soon after. Lora gets to kn...

from smik

The King family, Lora the schoolteacher and her brother Bill a policeman had always lived together, a peaceful co-existence, and together they were a team. That is, until Alice Steele almost crashed her car into his. And from that point on Bill was a goner: he and Alice decide to marry just 5 mon...