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Learn moreThe thrilling follow up to The Last Place You Look, starring troubled and determined private investigator Roxane Weary
Marin Strasser has a secret. Her fiancé thinks she’s having an affair, and he hires PI Roxane Weary to prove it. Then, just days into the case, Marin is shot to death on a side street in an apparent mugging. But soon enough the police begin to focus on Roxane’s client for Marin’s death, so she starts to dig deeper into Marin’s life—discovering that the elegant woman she’s been following has a past and a half, including two previous marriages, an adult son fresh out of prison, and a criminal record of her own. The trail leads to a crew of con artists, an ugly real estate scam that defrauds unsuspecting elderly homeowners out of their property, and the suspicious accident of a wealthy older woman who lives just down the street from where Marin was killed.
With Roxane’s client facing a murder indictment, the scammers threaten Roxane’s mother by ensnaring her house in their web of fraud unless Roxane drops the case, and it becomes clear that the stakes are as high as the secrets run deep.
Kristen Lepionka grew up mostly in her local public library, where she could be found with a big stack of adult mysteries before she was out of middle school. In the name of writing research, she has gone on multiple police ride-alongs, taken a lock-picking class, trespassed through an abandoned granary, and hiked inside an Icelandic volcano. Her writing has been selected for McSweeney’s “Internet Tendency,” Grift, and Black Elephant. She is also the editor of Betty Fedora, a semiannual journal that publishes feminist crime fiction.
Allyson Ryan is an actress with extensive stage, television, and voiceover experience, including commercials, animation, video games, and promos. The narrator of over eighty audiobooks, she received an Earphones Award for her narration of Kaya McLaren's On the Divinity of Second Chances.
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“That rare and precious thing—a sequel as good as—or even better than—the outstanding first in the series. It’s wise, knowing, propulsive, and perfectly pitched.”
“A great character, a vivid setting, a twisty, timely story that happens to be beautifully written. Kristen Lepionka and Roxane Weary are the best things to happen to the genre in years.”
“This is one of those PI series where I immediately became attached to the main character and I am really enjoying watching her grow (along with solve mysteries)…I would 100% hire Weary, because at the end of the day I know she’d at the very least always be in my corner.”
“The second book in the thrilling Roxane Weary series has something for everyone: murder, scam artists, secrets, and characters who are not all they say they are and who will do everything to keep their secrets and their pasts buried…Keeps fans of her novels on the edge of their seats.”
“With this successor to her highly praised debut…Lepionka is setting a high standard for crime fiction with the complex Roxane Weary at its heart.”
“That Roxane has an alarming habit of diving headfirst into dangerous situations only makes her more fascinating. Fans will no doubt look forward to her next case.”
“What a book! This second installment in the new mystery series about bisexual PI Roxane Weary is even better than the first in the series, which I also thought was great. Roxane is definitely one of my favorite fictional imperfect characters now…Lepionka also does an amazing job of the complex characterization…The detective plot was complicated, layered, and a little hard for me to keep track of at times–keeping me on my toes! Murder and fraud!”
"[Lepionka’s] characterization of her heroine’s interpersonal relationships remains spot-on.”
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