What You Want to See - Softcover

'Lepionka has created an excellent PI in Roxane Weary, who plies her trade in Ohio. In What You Want to See, Weary is hired by a 60-year-old man to follow his much younger fiancée, who he suspects is cheating on him. A few days later she's shot dead. It turns out she wasn't what she seemed. He becomes the suspect, but Weary doesn't believe he's guilty. More people die. It's a good plot, told very well, and the sympathetic Weary shines.' (Times)

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)

This is the second novel in a highly enjoyable series featuring Roxane Weary, a boozy, bisexual private detective in Ohio... fresh and fun. (Sunday Express)

'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)

'Bursting with energy, alive with wit and sharp as a whiplash. A first-rate crime novel, that rare combination of a cleverly constructed plot with equally clever, insightful characterisation. Roxane, in her early thirties and driven to her precarious, not to say dangerous, profession by her desire to emulate her dead policeman father, is a truly interesting creation. In this second novel, Lepionka fleshes her out even further, doing so by deftly avoiding cliché and making her totally likeable, a cocktail in equal parts girl-next-door and pit-bull investigator... Lepionka paints truly convincing portraits of a disparate range of characters, each of them well-crafted and brilliantly rendered, each adding his or her peculiar tile to a mosaic that is as complex as it is satisfying. Lepionka has an uncanny knack for portraying relationships, for showing us what makes her characters tick. If she will keep creating plots as clever as her first two, then we can look forward to the third instalment of Roxane Weary's adventures with justified anticipation.' (Thriller Books Journal)

'Roxane Weary is going to be with us for a long time. What You Want to See is an immensely enjoyable thriller.' (Nudge)

'I found both What You Want To See and The Last Place You Look compelling reads, packed with intrigue that kept me turning the pages to see what was going to happen next. [B]rilliant.' (A Knight's Read)

'There are those glorious moments as a reader when you pick up a book and you just know that you're going to be friends. I got this immediately when introduced to Kristen Lepionka's world-weary private investigator Roxane Weary.Roxanne feels sharp, edgy and up to the minute. In short, she feels like a real person and her character whose humanity comes across on the page. The plot is sufficiently intriguing too of course. From what seems to be a run-of-the-mill surveillance job, the pace quickly ratchets up to include a murder, a drive-by shooting, a second dead body and the involvement of organised crime. The fast pace, whip-sharp dialogue and rollercoaster twists and turns make [What You Want to See] the perfect book to devour in one or two sittings whilst sipping a glass of something chilled in the sunshine. And even if you're not heading for sunnier shores this summer, with an intriguing mystery, a sassy lead, a layered cast of support characters, and clever, confident writing that never loses its sense of humour, What You Want to See is an addition to the genre that definitely deserves a slice of any crime fiction fan's time.' (A Shelf of Unread Books)

'[F]ull of twists and turns. the real star of this story is definitely Roxanne herself. She is clever, strong, funny and dedicated to her job. I am a huge fan of Stephanie Plum (find her in the Janet Evanovich novels) and I think in Roxanne, Stephanie has got a run for her money.' (A Crime Reader's Blog)

'This is the second novel in a highly enjoyable series featuring Roxane Weary, a boozy, bisexual private detective in Ohio, Roxane is hired by a man who wants to find out whether his wife is cheating on him but ends up fighting to prove her client's innocence when the wife is murdered. The musty old tropes of the private eye story are fresh and fun in Kristen Lepionka's hands.' (Sunday Express S Magazine)

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?