Murder by Death

Crazy being the operative word.

Quinn is coasting through her life, trying to get through each day with a minimum of fuss, dating the local hero/coach of the high school where she teaches art, because it's easier than turning him down.  Until one day a student brings her a stray dog she falls in love with and Bill tells her she can't keep it.  That's the day Quinn snaps and decides to take her life back, causing a domino effect in the lives of those around her that is both hilarious and disturbing.

While Crusie writes incredibly entertaining, witty, funny chick-lit, she's frequently featured an ex-boyfriend/husband that's just a little bit...obsessive.  Unhealthy mentally.  But here, in Crazy for You she outdoes herself.  While a lot of her other books have just a subtle touch of the creepiness factor, this one oozes creepy.  For chick-lit, I found it to be extraordinarily uncomfortable.  Still excellent, funny, and steamy, but damn that man creeped me out!

I like this one better than Bet Me because that creepiness, that profoundly disturbing obsessiveness gives the story a much edgier feel - still definitely chick-lit - that makes the story much more compelling.  If you read psychological thrillers at all, this one is going to feel like puppies and marshmallow fluff, but if you stay on the more mentally stable side of fictional characterisations, you might find this read an entertaining way of pushing your personal envelope.