I Need You to Read This

The author of the “clever,atmosphericand creepy” (Andrea BartzNew York Times bestselling author) The Golden Spoon returns with a sly and addictive new mystery about an advice columnist searching for answers about her predecessor’s murder. Her most important letter might be her last… Years ago Alex Marks escaped to New York City for a fresh start. Nowaside from trips to her regular diner for coffeeshe keeps to herselfgets her perfectly normal copywriting job doneand doesn’t date. Her carefully cultivated world is upended when her childhood heroFrancis Keenis brutally murdered. Francis was the woman behind the famous advice columnDear Constanceand her words helped Alex through some of her darkest times. When Alex sees an advertisement searching for her replacementshe impulsively appliesnever expecting to actually get the job. Against all oddsAlex is given the position and quickly proves herself skilled at solving other people’s problems. But soonshe begins to receive strangepotentially threatening letters at the office. Francis’s murderer was never identifiedturning everyone around her into a threat. Including her bosseditor-in-chief Howard Dimitriwho has a habit of staying late at the office and drinking too much. As Alex is drawn into the details surrounding her predecessor’s murderher own dark secrets begin to rise to the surface and Alex suddenly finds herself trapped in a dangerous and potentially deadly game of cat and mouse that takes her all the way from the power centers of Manhattan to Francis Keen’s summer housewhere her body was found and where the killer may just be waiting for her.