I Need You to Read This

✍🏻The author of the “clever, atmospheric, and creepy” The Golden Spoon (Andrea Bartz, New York Times bestselling author) returns with a sly and addictive new mystery about an advice columnist searching for answers about her predecessor’s murder.

An “original mystery” (Catherine Ryan Howard) full of “scintillating tension” (Publishers Weekly): When advice columnist Francis is murdered, Alex unexpectedly inherits her childhood hero’s famous column. But threatening letters soon arrive, and with the killer still at large, Alex realizes everyone around her is a suspect… A “super creepy” listen (The Washington Post) perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell!
Alex Marks’ move to New York City is supposed to be a fresh start. She plans to lay low with her mundane copywriting job but the news of the murder of her childhood hero, Francis Keen, throws her for a loop. Beloved staff writer and the woman behind the famous advice column, Dear Constance , Keen’s death is a shock to her countless fans and readers.

When Alex sees an advertisement searching for her replacement, she impulsively applies, never expecting to actually get the job. But almost immediately, she begins to receive strange letters at the office and soon, Alex wonders why the murderer has never been found. Worse, she can’t help but question if her new boss and editor-in-chief, Howard Dimitri, was involved with Keen’s death.

As she starts her own investigation, the dark secrets of her own past rise to the surface and soon, Alex finds herself trapped in a dangerous and potentially deadly mystery. Will she solve the murder and save her own skin? Or will Alex face a similar fate?