First and foremost, special thanks to Random House's Kathleen Quinlan for pre-approving me for an eARC of this novel through NetGalley and knowing this was the right kind of novel for me. 

I thoroughly enjoyed Play the Fool. A perfect read for spooky season brought this novel to the top of my TBR, and has had me recommending it once released to a number of folks. Our protagonist, Katie, is a fiesty 20's something who is down on her luck (or maybe she's just exhausted by trying to live up to her family's expectations of her). When her mysterious older friend disappears and seems to have been murdered, Katie uses her skills for reading people and interpreting the tarot to try to discover what happened to her friend.

Soon Katie finds herself enmeshed in the possible murder investigation that's... not a murder investigation (the body disappeared?!), and seems to keep popping up at the wrong time, and the is quickly befriended by the detective who is new in town with his own difficult past.

Darkly and riotously funny, with prose that's precise and flowing, I highly recommend Play the Fool for fans of novels with femme protagonists, dark humor, murder mysteries, and twists and turns, but don't want to ruin the fun of unraveling the mystery within for future readers!