I died on a Tuesday
4.5Star

The story starts on the day of Janie’s accident. She is riding home on her bike when she is hit by a van.

The next character we meet is Robbie, an international pop star. His worst fears come true when he is arrested for the accident 20 years ago.

Next we meet is Vanessa. She is currently volunteering as a witness support person and is excited to finally see someone arrested for Janie’s awful accident that her late husband was the lead detective on.

The first half of the book is meeting new characters, explaining Janie’s accident, and building to the second half that feels a lot faster paced and full of action.

I like the way the story continues to the very last page, keeping us interested, yet still feels perfectly complete and wrapped up when it ends.



Available December 15th, 2024.

Thank you to NetGalley, Penguin Random House Canada and author, Jane Corry for the advanced copy.

Thank you the opportunity to read. I quite enjoyed I Died on a Tuesday, which is my first by Jane Corry. It had some twist and turns and an interesting storyline. There were so many characters in this book that it was a little hard to follow at times to be honest. But was still a fast-paced thrilling book that I did enjoy.

Janie had everything going for her - but as this 18 year old was riding her bike home, returning from an early morning swim, she was struck down by a van and left for dead. Twenty years later, this accident, which had remained unsolved, is suddenly thrust into the public eye once again when a famous singer is accused of the crime. Is Robbie as guilty as he says? Or is he covering for someone? And what does volunteer and retiree Vanessa have to do with it all?

PROS and CONS:
It was interesting reading from the perspectives of Vanessa, Robbie and Janie, each angle kept things moving with gaps being filled in by one another, only to be left with more questions once their parts were done. What do these three have in common? And who hurt Janie?? I liked it to begin with, but found the pacing to be quite slow in the end.

READ IT?
If you are a fan of Jane Corry, you will probably like this one. It was my first however, but not sure it was strong enough to convince me to add her to my go-to list of authors.

3 Stars

The premise of the book seemed promising enough - a young lady is almost killed in a hit-and-run; years later, the person potentially responsible is finally arrested and in trial. The execution, however, was a mess.
The writer threw in everything but the kitchen sink, with every character having some big secret to be revealed, which just got ridiculous, and the writing was downright cringey at times.
Thanks to #netgalley and #penguinpublishing for this #arc of #idiedonatuesday in exchange for an honest review.

Looking for a mystery where you're told who the suspect is in the beginning, but then you have to wrok out if they really ARE the ssupect? This twisty thriller will have you reading long into the night, trying to see how the lives of a rock star, policeman's widow and a judge will intersect with a decades old hit and run, and what will be the real consequences for those involved. Be preapred to yell a bit at the book, when another red herring shows itself and you realize you were wrong in your thinking! Don't miss this one this holiday season!

Not my cup of tea for sure. But I know theres probably a lot of people who would love this book. Just not for me. Thanks netgalley.

I really thought this worked well and was everything that I was looking for and enjoyed the overall suspenseful atmosphere that I was looking for from this type of book. The characters had that element that I was looking for and enjoyed the feel of this. Jane Corry has a strong writing style and was engaged with what was happening.

This one had a great premise and a good start. It got a bit slow in the middle, but picked up at the end. I did love the jump between the different POVs and the way it was clear who was telling us the story, not just with the names at the top but through italics and phrasing.

Fast paced, multiple POV, and suspenseful. I think the plot was an excellent idea, but lacked a little in execution. I would read this author again and recommend this book for a palate cleanser.

This was a decent read. I wasn’t a fan of the characters themselves but the storyline was solid and added some emotion to a somewhat suspenseful book. I’m not sure how I would categorize this one as it wasn’t really scary or mysterious.
It was a good read and held my interest. Overall pretty good

This was such an incredible story! This is a masterfully crafted story, full of human frailty and regret and comeuppance, that also manages to capture a sense of time and place in a way that really resonated with me. The characters were fully rounded and real and the drama and tragedy leapt off the pages.

I really loved the way things went back and forth and shifted perspective. I had both an audio and an e-book ARC, and while I thoroughly enjoyed the story as presented in both (because it's a marvelously nuanced tale told with a keen eye for pacing and suspense and characterization) I think I liked the audio version better (and that's something I don't usually say about a complex story). The shift in narrators really sold the characters' voices in my head in a way that even my own imagination could not, and it added an extra dimension to my experience of the book that I appreciated.

I will definitely be on the lookout for more from Jane Corry!

This book was good! 'I Died on a Tuesday' follows three characters: Janie, a teen dealing with a tragic accident; Robbie, a famous rock star with a jaw-dropping secret; and Vanessa, a support officer with her own baggage. Their lives collide in ways I didn’t see coming, and the twists kept me guessing. Some parts felt a bit too coincidental or over-the-top, but overall, it was an entertaining read with plenty of drama and suspense.

Thank you NetGalley and Penguin Random House Canada for this ARC.

Thank you to net galley for giving me this opportunity to read this book.
This is a dual timeline taking twenty years apart with the same characters.
Janie is eighteen and has the world ahead of her. She will be going to London to work in publishing. But one fateful morning as she is riding her bike from the bay where she was swimming she was hit by a white van.
The occupants of the van got out to see if they could be of any help, but, Jacob told the others not to do anything as she was most likely dead due to her injuries.
The occupants of the van were being driven to a gig that they were to perform at but as none of the boys have their drivers license the brother of one of the boys was driving.
Twenty years later.
Janie did survive her accident but was left with serious injuries.
Robbie Manning, one of the band members and occupant of the van on that fateful morning gets a knock at his door and is arrestted.
As the trial goes on there are three different versions of the accident and who was really at fault.
I really enjoyed this book as it is one of my favourite genres. There were so many twists that you just had to keep reading to find out what really did happen and was/were the right people convicted.

I Died on a Tuesday is a fast-paced, multi-POV, crime novel about an 18 year old girl whose life is destroyed after a horrible accident. The novel revolves around the victim, the defendant, judge, and the witness support worker.

Due to the short chapters and multiple point of views, the book is able to create a fast pace that carries the book through its first two parts. Unfortunately, the final part, in my opinion has too many climatic elements of reveals that unravel more questions. By doing so, it drags the ending out more than feels necessary. The characters are flawed to the point of annoyance. I did not like by the end of the novel there seemed to be time jumps woven into the sentences without any paragraph blocks or change in chapter. It only further convoluted the timeline.

The novel paints a great picture of the lies people will tell themselves to better their own self image, takes on grief, the secrets we keep and how they can affect those around us. A praise for Corry’s plot, what a fascinating idea that just happened to fall short by the end. Unfortunately, the build of the story gets lost by the third part and throws in the final pieces quicker than it should have. I was glued to this book and wanted more from it than I ended with.

Thank you NetGalley and Penguin Random House Canada for this ARC.

FINALLY a thriller/mystery book that I liked this year! The formatting was very weird on my kindle but the story was good enough that it didn't bother me. This went in a wild direction at the end. The characters were well-developed and believable - they didn't feel like caricatures of actual people. I really enjoyed the different perspectives and I think this would make a great audiobook. The men in this book however SUCK. Would recommend this book. I immediately bought another book by this author that I'm excited to dive into.

There were more characters than was strictly necessary for this story, but that wouldn't have bothered me had not every single one of them been deeply stunted emotionally. More concerning: At one point a character says, and this isn't a direct quote, but...My stepmother was so mean she put me off women and I became a homosexual.

Oh, is that how that works? I see.

Things aren’t always as they seem. Janie is hit while riding a bicycle, and in that split second everything changes. Meanwhile, rock star Robbie, although amazingly successful, hides a secret guilt that haunts him daily. And Vanessa learns shocking truths that change everything she believed about her life with her husband, Jack. Can these people fearlessly face the truth?

This is a fast-paced enjoyable story, until the last part of the book. That is where situations become confusing and convoluted. Up until that point, we had enough twists and turns to be interesting, but after that point, it became overdone. The characters are well-crafted and interesting, though, and bring the reader through the interesting developments in the plot.

This was a fascinating book. The jumps were a little jarring at first, but they're the whole point of the book. I loved how this played with the idea of the truth and makes the reader question who and what to believe.

Interesting premise. Some really tough and gut-wrenching plot points. The twists got to be a little too many, too far-fetched or too irrelevant to the main storyline. I was still intrigued enough to keep turning the pages, despite the effort of keeping track of all the “missing pieces” and the barrage of revelations towards the end that unfortunately didn’t go very well together for the overall storyline.
3/5 stars.
Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for the ARC.

I wanted to like this more than I did :( I think the first part is pretty enticing but it's so long for what it is that I just got a bit lost and bored within the story.