Murder of a Grumpy Old Woman

A missing woman everyone hates. A sleepaway camp for adults with bad personalities. A one-of-a-kind detective.

“Once again the incomparable (and unhinged) Jo Firestone proves that she is damn funny.”—Ziwe, on Murder on Sex Island

Marie Jones is back on her feet. Mostly. She’s keeping her cats alive, she’s stopped dating creeps, and with the help of her friend, Joan Clyborne, she’s running a small but growing private detective agency as her glamourous alter ego, Luella van Horn.

Then she gets a call that could ruin everything. An old woman is missing at Lake Pleasant Personality Camp, a secluded camp for adults with terrible personalities. A camp Marie herself attended during a very dark moment of her life, and a place she thought she had left behind forever.

But when Marie discovers that Lake Pleasant has a history of missing persons, it becomes clear this case is bigger than one missing octogenarian. Blackmail, an underground candy bar market, old flames hoping to reconnect… Lake Pleasant Personality Camp is the last place Marie wants to find herself. Worst of all, the murderer may still be there.