P.S. You're The Worst
By Chloe Seager
William Morrow Paperbacks; paperback, $18.99; Ebook, $12.99; Digital Audio, $23.99
Chloe Seager is a director and literary agent at Madeleine Milburn Agency. Her debut novel was Open Minded, and it focused on relationships in all their messy glory.
P.S. You're The Worst is her second novel, a coming-of-age story about a woman who accidentally upends her life after a disconcerting tarot reading. It also deals with the chaotic and confusing process of becoming an adult and figuring out what you want from life.
Becky is not doing well as her dreaded thirtieth birthday is just around the corner. "Twenty-nine. I count to twenty-nine on my fingers. That is a lot of fingers," Seager writes in Becky's voice. "Have I really lived through twenty-nine years? How can that be?! I still have pink-tipped hair, for God's sake. I still sometimes buy WKD and listen to Britney Spears. No one who still listens to Britney Spears can be twenty-nine...
"...Except, that's exactly how old people who listen to Britney are. Because 'the youth' don't know who she is...do they? I start googling 'do the youth know who Britney Spears is?' and then stop in my tracks. Anyone googling facts about 'the youth' is indisputably no longer 'the youth.'
"I just don't know when it happened. I swear to God, I blinked and ten years passed. Ten years ago I was still nineteen. Just a naive simpleton waiting expectantly for her cocktail parties, exciting career - was always nebulous as to what exactly it would be, but I knew it would be exciting - and sophisticated dates."
The thought that Becky can't get out of her mind is that she's falling behind in life, as her friends are all planning weddings, buying houses, and starting their own businesses.
Meanwhile, Becky is still living at home, hates her job, and doesn't speak to her father. She also can't move on from her ex-boyfriend. She is in desperate need of guidance, and with that, along with a gift card, she visits a tarot reader.
Becky is told she is going to die, and convinced that premonition is true, she panics that she has done nothing with her life and starts to take action. She writes letters to the people she loves, letting loose all the things she was holding back. She then waits to see what happens.
The next morning, she isn't dead, and realizes those letters are on their way. Will they be the wake-up call Becky needs, or the next steps in this seemingly endless downward spiral?
Murder Most Haunted
By Emma Mason
William Morrow; paperback; $18.99
Emma Mason is a former Detective Constable with Thames Valley Police. She writes and works as a design consultant, creating virtual reality training for the defense sector. Emma now lives in Dorset with her husband, children, and parents.
Murder Most Haunted is Mason's debut novel, and her rare professional background lends itself to creating a main character of unique authenticity, Midge McGowan, a detective who is retiring.
McGowan was gifted an invitation to a haunted Christmas weekend, and she is tasked with confronting an incredible crime in this puzzle box mystery that asks if you would rather be snowed-in with a ghost or a murderer.
The weekend guests at the Famous Atherton Hall soon become aware that the house has a mind of its own, and they might not be the only ones there. An eerie figure appears on the property, and then the unthinkable happens, as someone is murdered in a room that has been locked from the inside.
Soon after, a blizzard cuts the group off from any assistance. The house's dark secrets then come to the surface, which gives Midge the forboding sense they were walking into a nightmare. It could be the work of a ghost, or one of the guests, who have endeared themselves to Midge.
Mason creating this thrilling book by combining two golden-age mystery staples, a locked room mystery and a haunted house, while giving them a new, fresh, witty take.
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No Body No Crime
By Tess Sharpe
MCD; hardcover, 304 pages; $29.00
Tess Sharpe is the award-winning author of books in all genres, for children, teens, and adults, most known for Barbed Wire Heart and the YA novel The Girls I've Been, a New York Times bestseller that is soon to be a Netflix movie produced by and starring Millie Bobbie Brown.
No Body No Crime is Sharpe's exciting return to adult fiction, centered on two women whose lives and hearts are destined for each other.
It is also a story about murder, which will bond you or break you. For teenaged Melanie (Mel) Tillman and Chloe Harper, it was the bonding sort, both in crime and a love affair meant to last.
Mel is a working private investigator in her rural Northern California hometown and single. She has seen her share of bloody cases and botched cover-ups. The other thing she has real experience with is killing with someone.
Toby Dunne has not been heard from since Chloe's sweet sixteen party. That is because Mel buried him so deep in the backwoods that nobody will ever find him.
Mel loses little sleep over it, as Toby was terrorizing them. What does cause concern is Chloe, the girl with whom she survived that horrible night, the girl she fell in love with, and the girl who disappeared and hasn't been heard from for six years.
Chloe's family has given the task of finding her to Mel, who can't resist the lure of a good chase, or finding the one who got away with her heart, and possibly, with murder.
When Mel comes cross an armed and vigilant Chloe living off the grid in a booby-trapped part of the Canadian wilderness, Mel realizes Chloe was expecting someone else. The thing that has kept Chloe going for years is that she has kept Mel safe by running, but now the truth must come out as they run for their lives again.
When they buried Toby in the backwoods, something else was buried along with him. It was something Toby took, and the powerful family he stole it from will do anything to get it back.
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