What You Want to See

by Kristen Lepionka Narrated by Allyson Ryan

Overview

The thrilling follow up to The Last Place You Look, starring troubled and determined private investigator Roxane Weary

Marin Strasser has a secret. Her fiance 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.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

03/05/2018
The shooting death of interior decorator Marin Strasser, the fiancée of Roxane Weary’s current client, Arthur Unglass, drives Lepionka’s twisty second mystery featuring the Ohio PI (after 2017’s The Last Place You Look). Arthur hired Roxane to find out whether Marin was cheating on him, and he’s now the main suspect. Roxane, who can’t believe he killed her, discovers that Marin had a criminal past and, in her volatile adult son, a partner in crime. But was she up to no good, or had she turned her life around? Either way, Roxane is determined to prove Arthur’s innocence, but she is soon in way over her head. Roxane’s self-destructive tendencies, such as frequent drinking and a fraught on-and-off romance with the beautiful and mercurial Catherine Walsh, whose help she enlists, only serve to complicate matters. 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. Agent: Jill Marsal, Marsal Lyon Literary Agency. (May)

From the Publisher

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. Lepionka is a major new talent.” — Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE reminds me of everything that made me fall in love with PI fiction. 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." —Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author

“What You Want to See is a fresh, smart, edgy update of the best in classic detective fiction. Get used to the names Roxane Weary and Kristen Lepionka, because you’ll be hearing about them both for a long time."—Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author of The Wife

"Lepionka is setting a high standard for crime fiction with the complex Roxane Weary at its heart."—Booklist (starred review)

"Twisty...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."—Publishers Weekly

Kirkus Reviews

2018-02-20
A routine case pulls a private eye into the criminal world when the woman she's been following is suddenly murdered.People who show up out of the blue at Roxane Weary's door rarely bring good news, so she doesn't expect much from her former lover Tom and his colleague Detective Sanko. They're looking for information on Marin Strasser, who just so happens to have been Roxane's most recent job. Marin's fiance, Arthur Ungless, hired Roxane to tail her for a few days because he feared she was having an affair before they were even married. Roxane didn't think much about the time she spent watching Marin shop and wander around town—the subject seemed too disconnected from anyone to be having an affair or even a casual friendship—but she didn't mind billing Arthur. When Roxane and Arthur met to discuss the case, he insisted even more strongly on the need to follow Marin but couldn't produce the money he'd promised Roxane in the first place. Again, Roxane thought little of it until Tom and Sanko inform her that Marin's been shot and killed and that whatever information Roxane has could be the key to finding her killer. Though not strongly invested, Roxane, feeling for Arthur, does a little digging of her own, uncovering what appears to be a secret life or two in Marin's past. Who was Marin Strasser after all? Roxane doesn't try to mix her own personal life with her work apart from her friendship with Shelby, a teen whose life she saved in more ways than one (The Last Place You Look, 2017). But the more closely Roxane investigates Marin, the more whatever danger Marin was involved in threatens to leach into Roxane's life and put her loved ones in peril.This book doesn't have the dark creepiness that made Lepionka's series opener successful, but her characterization of her heroine's interpersonal relationships remains spot-on.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169753080
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	05/01/2018
Series:	Roxane Weary Series , #2
Edition description:	Unabridged

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