Losers, Weepers is the fifth instalment of Golden Crown Literary Award winner Jessica Thomas's Alex Peres mystery series. In this episode, Private Detective Alex is contacted by the grandmother of a missing girl who had just "come out" to her family. Alex no sooner takes up the case when a dear friend's death leaves her with another mystery on her hands. Names and family secrets between the two cases overlap, as do plenty of people with motive for mayhem-and maybe even murder.

Alex no sooner takes up the case when a dear friend's death leaves her with another mystery on her hands. Names and family secrets between the two cases overlap, as do plenty of people with motive for mayhem-and maybe even murder. No longer convinced her friend's death was suicide; Alex finds herself neck-deep in a complex and emotionally draining web of danger and deceit. Can she solve one case without doing irreparable harm to those involved in the other-and herself?