Winner of the Shamus Award for Best PI Hardcover novel 2019 This is the second novel to feature the private investigator Roxane Weary, whos a wonderful character. Lepionka is such an assured writer, with complete narrative authority from the first line. Sophie HannahShaken 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 fiance is cheating on him, Roxane is happy to have landed a runofthemill surveillance job. Until, that is, Marin Strasser, the woman shes been tailing, turns up dead.The police are convinced her client is the one who pulled the trigger. Certain and scared that things arent 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?

Binding: Paperback;304 pages; Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd; Classification: FF; Weight: 360 g; Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 21

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