Kristen Lepionka Knihy

'Seriously this is a must read. I loved it!' MARTINA COLE 'Utterly superb ... pure reading pleasure.' SOPHIE HANNAH One of VAL MCDERMID'S New Blood choices for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate 2017 What really happened to Sarah Cook? A beautiful blonde teenager, Sarah Cook disappeared fifteen years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend Brad Stockton - black and from the wrong side of the tracks - was convicted of the murders and sits on death row, though he always maintained his innocence. As his execution nears, his devoted sister, insisting she has spotted Sarah at a local gas station, hires PI Roxane Weary to look at this cold case. Reeling from the recent death of her cop father, Roxane is drawn to the story of Sarah's disappearance, especially when she suspects a link between it and one of her father's unsolved murder cases. Despite her self-destructive tendencies, Roxane starts to hope that she can save Brad's life and her own.

You know Reacher, Rebus and Grace. Now meet Roxane Weary...

PI Roxane Weary has just about settled into a comfortable life, spending her days working uncomplicated cases and her nights with her on-again girlfriend Catherine, until a panicked phone call from her brother Andrew upends everything. Andrew's one-time fling, Addison, has made a dramatic late night appearance at his apartment, only to vanish into the cold Columbus winter.Andrew doesn't know where Addison might have gone or what could have happened to her - but when the police show up at his door, claiming he's got something to do with her disappearance, Roxane realises she might just be the only person who believes him. The only way to help her brother is to figure out what happened to Addison. but the closer Roxane gets, the harder it becomes to tell the truth from the lies.

Shaken by the outcome of her last big case, PI Roxane Weary is keeping a low profile. When she takes on a new client who suspects his fiancee is cheating on him, Roxane is happy to have landed a run-of-the-mill surveillance job. Until, that is, Marin Strasser, the woman she's been tailing, turns up dead. The police are convinced her client is the one who pulled the trigger. Certain - and scared - that things aren't so straightforward, Roxane starts to follow a paper trail that gets more dangerous the farther it goes. So who really was Marin Strasser? Who could have wanted her dead? And how can Roxane stop her work from once again pushing away the few people she thinks she can trust?

Privatermittlerin Roxane Weary wird in einen komplexen Fall verwickelt, als sie die Verlobte ihres Klienten, Marin Strasser, beschatten soll. Nach Marins Tod wird Arthur, ihr Klient, zum Hauptverdächtigen. Roxane glaubt an seine Unschuld und ermittelt selbst, wobei sie gefährliche Geheimnisse aus Marins Vergangenheit aufdeckt.

Vor 15 Jahren wurde Brad Stockton zum Tode verurteilt. Er soll seine Freundin Sarah, ein hübsches blondes Mädchen, entführt und ihre Eltern getötet haben. Nun schwört Brads Schwester, Sarah vor Kurzem gesehen zu haben. Sie engagiert Roxane Weary, und obwohl die junge Privatermittlerin den Fall für aussichtslos hält, nimmt sie ihn aus Geldnot an. Als man Roxane aber von ihren Ermittlungen abbringen will, verbeißt sie sich – und stößt tatsächlich auf weitere hübsche blonde Mädchen, die spurlos verschwanden. Doch je tiefer Roxane gräbt, umso gefährlicher wird es: für sie selbst, für die vermissten Frauen und für Brad, dessen Zeit abläuft …