Jenny Lawson, known around the internet as the Bloggess, is a must-read author for people who appreciate a well-timed taxidermy joke.

Some might call her humor crude, or gently demented, but her previous books, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened…

Grayson Sykes knows that a missing woman doesn’t always want to be found. Unfortunately, she’s a newly minted private investigator who doesn’t get to pick the clients.

The doctor who hired her firm is more concerned about his missing dog …

January Anderson is out of money, out of her long-term relationship, and rage-grieving her dead dad when she pulls up to the beach house on Lake Michigan. This is the cottage her father left for her after his sudden death, …

Grief is as tricky as it is painful. Words that comfort one day come up short the next. It’s difficult to be that friend who knows what to say or do. The closest thing I’ve found to a manual for “being there for a suffering friend” is There is No Good Card for This by Kelsey Crowe and Emily McDowell.

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Ruth Ware returns to the locked-room mystery in One By One.

The team behind the newest social media sensation, an app called “snoop” that is a more voyeuristic Spotify, takes a work holiday to a rustic-chic French chalet. The …