What You Want to See (Roxane Weary, #2)

by Kristen Lepionka

Winner of the Shamus Award for Best PI Hardcover novel 2019

'This is the second novel to feature the private investigator Roxane Weary, who's a wonderful character. Lepionka is such an assured writer, with complete narrative authority from the first line.' Sophie Hannah

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 fiancée 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?

• ISBN10: 0571336167
• ISBN13: 9780571336166
• Publish Date: 1 May 2018
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Faber & Faber
• Edition: Main
• Format: eBook (EPUB)
• Pages: 304
• Language: English

Reviews

[layawaydragon]

I love this series. Still unabashedly bisexual. Acknowledges racial disparity and injustice. Inching, itching, aching character progression. Clever mysteries where you can kinda guess somethings a few pages before Roxanne, but most things, especially the endings are twistedly unexpected. All the characters, relationships, dynamics and their plots are involved and intricate but not convoluted..

I love Roxanne. She's complex and fucked up but always tries to get the truth AND do the right thing. It's not just mental masturbation or pride or a status symbol for her.

This story wasn't as visceral a reaction since there are no dirty cops or sadomasochist rapist murderers. I'm honestly relieved. This story is more about other dysfunctional families, what happens when they intersect, and how sometimes there are no real winners, only victims and survivors.

I cannot wait for more of this series!


Notes From Listening:

>>Neighborhood gentrification
>>Hipster radio drama lol
>>"If leagues were a real thing, she'd be out of his"
>>"surveillance is a skewed viewing, like TV with the sound off."
>>She's a total scammer
>>SHELBY!!!!! AWWWWWWWWW
>>No friends? Veronica? Oh. That sucks. :(
>>Move in with you!!!
>>"lank humidity"
>>Marin trans? Oh please don't fuck this up!
>>Edward lol. She just collects weird pathetic dudes.
>>Aw Meredith 911 caller.
>>"brother breezed in on a cloud of smoke and aftershave"
>>Your bro know the hook up for Vic?
>>"It resembled a place about to be burned down for insurance money"
>>Money laundering???
>>OH SHIT another!
>>Derek? Random girl?
>>Property crimes?
>>Pomp. "Helping a stranger is something I'll remember"
>>Oh yeah, Pomp is dirty.
>>Ewwww that sandwich.
>>Delaware?
>>PTSD.
>>Whoa slow down Georgetta.
>>"attractive in the way money make you attractive whether you really were or not"
>>Nate the son. Locket.
>>Ex-step mom?? All 25 years old!?!
>>Fighting drunk
>>Slept w/ Nate's karate teacher. Started divorce. Dead at the 14th green. (good Lifetime movie). Heart attack.
>>Belleville married to HVAC tech gets only insurance & kid's trust
>>"burning photographs, how gauche".
>>Nate is 25 now.
>>Grandma's house. Crazy ass Agnes, hollow where she was shot.
>>Bobby Veach? Weird running.
>>Pomp trying to buy print shop.
>>Marin & Laylah friends?
>>Laylah gone for days....
>>Aww the cat ladies!!
>>"fallen"? anti-pysch meds for paranoid schizophrenia
>>Salome?
>>Interesting. AJ the case worker.
>>Nate grand larcenary
>>Oh no. Poor Shelby. Stupid Joshua.
>>Live with YOU!!
>>She is now the show the neighbors listen too lol!
>>"If it wasn't for the stupid curfew, none of this would have happened" OUCH. Heart = broken.
>>Wait, her dad kicked her out before graduation? Holy shit.
>>Phoenix group owns Laylah's building.
>>"uh...cuz the world is fucked up?!" LOL
>>NOOOOOOOOOO BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD
>>Workshop print shop with Kat and two metal plate money stamps.
>>Oh no, he thinks it's a date! Adorbs awkward cutie.
>>Shelbs never heard of Law & Order?!?!
>>"those things do not spark joy and we're getting rid of them"
>>lol Susie & Molly.
>>Great actors?
>>WTF?
>>Fuck you Nate.
>>"it was like an itch but in my bran with a very specific remedy"
>>"kiss seemed like an exchange of power rather than something romantic"
>>She thinks she's John? Told AJ about Marin. Silenced.
>>April 10th!
>>Poor Alicia. Fuck that racist shit.
>>Oh fucking shit. Nate.
>>"Everyone keeps saying that [he's a great guy] while screwing him over"
>>"Do you know how is the POTUS?" "Unfortunately" LOLOLOLOL
>> OH NO NOT SAM NO.