Jessa Maxwell is the nationally bestselling author of The Golden Spoon, I Need You to Read This, and Dead of Summer. She is also the author and illustrator of five picture books for children. Her comics and cartoons have been published in The New Yorker and The New York Times and her writing has been published in Slate, Marie Claire, and many others. She now lives in Jamestown, Rhode Island, with her husband, two cats and three-legged dog.

"No one expects their dream job to end up a nightmare, but that's precisely what happens to Alex Marks in Jessa Maxwell's latest perfectly plotted whodunnit, a novel that asks us point blank what price we're willing to pay for our ambition, because it just might be our life. With a crackling pace and series of irresistible twists, it's impossible to know who to trust at the New York Herald, especially when one of your co-workers might be a murderer. It's a killer job, if you can survive." --KATY HAYS, New York Times bestselling author of The Cloisters

"Jessa Maxwell has written a smart, thoroughly entertaining mystery, in which empathy is an amateur sleuth's sharpest weapon. Layered and carefully crafted, the pages of I Need You To Read This turn themselves." --CLÉMENCE MICHALLON, internationally bestselling author of The Quiet Tenant

"What a perfect title because I need you to read this book! Jessa expertly explores the world of an advice columnist who is desperately in need of some of her own advice--like stay out of murder investigations if you don't want to put yourself in danger! I enjoyed every minute of this twisty, original tale." --CATHERINE MACK, USA Today bestselling author of Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies

"There's real heart beating at the center of this addictive and original mystery about a newspaper's agony-aunt drawn into the murder of her famous predecessor. I sat down to read a few chapters and looked up hours later from the very last page..." --CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD, author of The Trap

"A fresh and fascinating twist on a classic murder mystery. Not only does Jessa Maxwell transform the comfort of an advice column into something far more cut-throat, but she also deftly balances the darkness of the story with the warmth and wit of its characters. Just be careful which ones you trust!" --MEGAN COLLINS, author of The Family Plot

"Scintillating tension." --Publisher's Weekly

"Maxwell embodies the empathy of the advice giver well, while also crafting a propulsive narrative with plenty of twists and turns."--Crimereads

"[A] palm-sweat-inducing psychological thriller." --Booklist

Publisher: Atria Books

Pub date: 2025-05-06

Length: 304 pages