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Roxane Weary Series

Book-Inspired Cocktails: “Rox and Whiskey”

By Adam Wagner

May 4, 2018

What do you do when a simple investigation turns into a complicated and dangerous nightmare? Settle your nerves with this week’s Pick Your Poison—where we create a cocktail inspired by a recently published mystery, thriller, or crime novel—the “Rox and Weary” cocktail, inspired by Kristen Lepionka’s second Roxane Weary novel, What You Want to See! What…

Review: What You Want to See by Kristen Lepionka

By Danielle Antosz

May 4, 2018

What You Want to See by Kristen Lepionka is the thrilling follow-up to The Last Place You Look and the second book in the Roxane Weary series. What You Want to See is a satisfying PI mystery by Kristen Lepionka and a follow up to the first Roxane Weary novel, The Last Place You Look—which, full disclosure, I hadn’t…

5 New Books to Read this Week: May 1, 2018

By Crime HQ

May 2, 2018

Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! This week, Kristen Lepionka’s sophomore effort combines with a new Murder, She Wrote mystery and Ace Atkins’s latest Robert B. Parker…

What You Want to See: New Excerpt

By kristen lepionka

April 27, 2018

What You Want to See by Kristen Lepionka is the thrilling follow-up to The Last Place You Look and the second book in the Roxane Weary series. Marin Strasser has a secret. Her fiancé thinks her secret is that she’s having an affair, and he hires P.I. Roxane Weary to prove it. Then, just days into the…

What You Want to See by Kristen Lepionka: A Visual Guide

By Crime HQ

March 28, 2018

GIFnotes: Giving you the basic plot summary of an upcoming book with the help of the Graphics Interchange Format. What You Want to See by Kristen Lepionka is the thrilling follow up to The Last Place You Look, starring troubled and determined private investigator Roxane Weary—take a visual tour with GIFnotes!

Criminal Element’s Best Books of 2017

By Crime HQ

December 20, 2017

2017 was a killer year for books! A couple of phenomenal debuts combined with some series regulars to fill our e-readers and bookshelves all year. With 2018 right around the corner, we present our picks for the best books of 2017: 

Review: The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka

By Amber Keller

June 29, 2017

The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka is a gripping debut and the first book in the new Roxane Weary series. What a pleasant surprise this novel was, full of exuberance, life, and richness. The Last Place You Look is a journey shared with our main character, Roxane Weary. Roxane, “with one n,” is a…

5 New Books to Read this Week: June 13, 2017

By Crime HQ

June 14, 2017

Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! A lost James Bond-inspired novel from Donald Westlake and a new James Bourne thriller by Eric Van Lustbader highlight a great…

Kristen Lepionka Excerpt: The Last Place You Look

By kristen lepionka

June 13, 2017

The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka is a gripping debut and the first book in the new Roxane Weary series (available June 13, 2017). 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…

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