The Stories You Tell
Roxane Weary #3
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
'Roxane Weary [is] a wonderful character. Lepionka is such an assured writer, with complete narrative authority from the first line.' Sophie Hannah
'Kristen Lepionka and Roxane Weary are the best things to happen to the genre in years.' Laura Lippman, author of Sunburn
A 3am phone call is never good news.
Private investigator Roxane Weary receives a panicked call from her brother, Andrew: his one-time fling, Addison, who turned up at his apartment the night before drunk, bloodied and hysterical, has gone missing. As police suspicion quickly falls on her brother, Roxane knows she is the only person who believes him, she just has to figure out what happened.
Through tracking Addison's digital footprint she goes deeper and deeper into the events preceding her disappearance. But, as Roxane struggles to distinguish the truth from the stories people tell about themselves online, the case takes another dramatic turn.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Lepionka's entertaining third mystery featuring Columbus, Ohio, PI Roxane Weary (after 2018's What You Want to See), Roxane gets a late-night call from her brother, Andrew, asking for help. A short time before, Addison Stowe, a DJ working at Nightshade, a nearby nightclub, appeared at his door in great distress, begging to use his phone. After making the call, Addison rushed out, despite Andrew's efforts to detain her. When Roxane tries to find Addison, she discovers that she hasn't returned home, Nightshade is completely deserted, and that a few days earlier a policeman visited Addison's apartment asking for her. Roxane's search for Addison becomes personal after the police learn that Andrew was the last person to see her before she went missing; they arrest Andrew for drug possession, a pretext to detain him while they investigate Addison's disappearance. A cop's murder and troubles in Roxane's long-term relationship heighten the drama. Fans of plucky female detectives will look forward to Roxane's further adventures.
