The Last Place You Look

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By Kristen Lepionka

A Choose to Read Ohio selection. 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. 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. Still reeling from the recent death of her cop father in the line of duty, Roxane’s main way of dealing with her grief has been working as little and drinking as much as possible. But she finds herself drawn in to the story of Sarah's vanishing act, especially when she links the disappearance to one of her father’s unsolved murder cases involving another teen girl. 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. Use the Choose to Read Ohio toolkit for The Last Place You Look to plan book discussion groups or library programs. Visit Kristen Lepionka's website. Book jacket image and book description courtesy Macmillan. Used with permission.