The last place you look: a mystery - kristen lepionka

Kristen Lepionkas 2018 Anthony Award Nominee for Best First Novel, The Last Place You Look is a head-on collision between an allegedly closed case and a tenacious, troubled private investigator who doesnt know when to quit.

Nobody knows what happened to Sarah Cook.

The beautiful blonde teenager 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 is now on death row.

Though hes maintained his innocence all along, the clock is running out.

His execution is only weeks away when his devoted sister insists she spied Sarah at an area gas station.

Willing to try anything, she hires PI Roxane Weary to look at the case and see if she can locate Sarah.

Brad might be in a bad way, but private investigator Roxane Weary isnt doing so hot herself.

Still reeling from the recent death of her cop father in the line of duty, her main way of dealing with her grief has been working as little and drinking as much as possible.

But Roxane finds herself drawn in to the story of Sarahs vanishing act, especially when she links the disappearance to one of her fathers unsolved murder cases involving another teen girl.

The stakes get higher as Roxane discovers that the two girls may not be the only beautiful blonde teenagers whove turned up missing or dead.

As her investigation gets darker and darker, Roxane will have to risk everything to find the truth.

Lives depend on her cracking this case--hers included.