I Need You to Read This

A Novel

By: Jessa Maxwell

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

This “super creepy” (The Washington Post) and “perfectly plotted whodunit” (Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author) follows an advice columnist searching for answers about her predecessor’s murder—from the bestselling author of The Golden Spoon.

Years ago, Alex Marks escaped to New York City for a fresh start. Now, aside from trips to her regular diner for coffee, she keeps to herself, gets her perfectly normal copywriting job done, and doesn’t date. Her quiet world is upended when her childhood hero, Francis Keen, is brutally murdered. Francis was the woman behind the famous advice column, Dear Constance, and her words helped Alex through some of her darkest times.

When Alex sees an advertisement searching for her replacement, she impulsively applies, never expecting to get the job. Against all odds, Alex is given the position but soon, she begins to receive strange, potentially threatening letters at the office. Francis’s murderer was never identified, turning everyone around her into a threat. Including her boss, editor-in-chief Howard Dimitri, who has a habit of staying late at the office and drinking too much.

As Alex is drawn into the details surrounding her predecessor’s murder, her own dark secrets begin to rise to the surface and she suddenly finds herself trapped in a dangerous game of cat and mouse that takes her all the way from the power centers of Manhattan to Francis Keen’s summer house, where her body was found and where the killer may just be waiting for her in this “fresh and fascinating” (Megan Collins, author of The Family Plot) page-turner.

Once I started I couldn’t stop listening!

This was a great who done it. Some reviews didn’t like the narrator, but I do. All around a great listen!

Story was decent. Narration was not the best

The story itself was decent. But the narration was off. it seemed as though the narrator has an accent she was trying to cover up. I think the book would have been more enjoyable if she would have just been free to have an accent. all the characters kind of sounded the same. but not. ir wasn't so off putting I couldn't finish the book. but it did annoy me through out.

Fantastic!

I'm so glad I gave this book a listen! I was sorry when it ended. The characters were unique and each had their own story that unfolded to support the twists and turns of this creepy mystery. The advice aspect gave the book an extra layer of depth with many places that made me stop and consider.

Very enjoyable!

Oh, wow! What a plot twist?! Alexis can't seem to catch a break after having fled her horrible past to start a new life. In this new life, however, she may just be in more danger than she was before.

It was fine

It was a decent listen to pass the time. Felt it was a little disjointed though. Several unlikely scenarios.