The Stories You Tell

‘Roxane Weary [is] a wonderful character. Lepionka is such an assured writer, with complete narrative authority from the first line.’ Sophie Hannah

‘Kristen Lepionka and Roxane Weary are the best things to happen to the genre in years.‘ Laura Lippman, author of Sunburn

A 3am phone call is never good news.

Private investigator Roxane Weary receives a panicked call from her brother, Andrew: his one-time fling, Addison, who turned up at his apartment the night before drunk, bloodied and hysterical, has gone missing. As police suspicion quickly falls on her brother, Roxane knows she is the only person who believes him, she just has to figure out what happened.

Through tracking Addison’s digital footprint she goes deeper and deeper into the events preceding her disappearance. But, as Roxane struggles to distinguish the truth from the stories people tell about themselves online, the case takes another dramatic turn.