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Nov 09, 2018skyekilaen rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
If you like messy main characters, this mystery is for you. Roxane Weary is a bisexual private investigator, daughter of a slain police officer, and very definitely an alcoholic. She has an ill-advised on-again off-again affair with her ex-girlfriend, who married a man, and Roxane is also sleeping with her father's former partner on the force. She's hired by a black woman to investigate the long-ago disappearance of a white teenage girl, because the client's brother is awaiting execution for the murder of the girl and her parents. Roxane pursues the case doggedly, especially once she finds a possible connection between the case and an unsolved case of her father's. It's clear that Roxane's substance abuse is increasingly as much of an obstacle to solving the case as the lack of solid evidence and interference from suspicious local cops; as a fictional device, her blackouts and other incidents only increase the tension. I was so wrapped up in the writing and Allyson Ryan's narration that I barely resented doing hours of physical therapy exercises at home while listening to the audiobook. If that's not a sufficient testimonial, I don't know what else I can say! I've never been a big mystery reader, but this book has made me work on changing that.