Kristen Lepionka

Kristen Lepionka is an American author known for her crime mystery novel Roxane Weary Series. Lepionka's debut novel The Last Place You Look won Shamus award and was nominated for Bisexual Book Awards and Macavity Awards.

Career

Lepionka made her debut in the crime fiction with the novel The Last Place You Look in 2017.[1] Lepionka's work has been praised for its unsentimental portrayal of a woman's struggle with alcoholism and her unapologetic portrayal of a bisexual character.[2] The book won the Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel and was nominated for the Anthony and Macavity Awards.[3]

Lepionka's second novel, "What You Want to See" in Roxane Weary Series was published in 2018, nominated for Bisexual Book awards [4],and it was followed by The Stories You Tell in 2019 [5] and Once You Go This Far in 2020.[6]

Bibliography
  • Lepionka, Kristen (2017). The last place you look : a mystery (1st ed.). New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books. p. 334. ISBN 1250120519.
  • Lepionka, Kristen (2018). What you want to see (1st ed.). New York: Minotaur Books. p. 296. ISBN 9781250120533.
  • Lepionka, Kristen (2019). The stories you tell : a mystery. [Ashland, Oregon]: Minotaur Books. p. 352. ISBN 978-1982631680.
  • Lepionka, Kristen (2020). Once you go this far (1st ed.). New York: Minotaur Books. p. 320. ISBN 978-1250309372.

References
  1. Brissette, Karen (17 July 2017). "A Certain Sly Intelligence". Los Angeles Review of Books.
  2. Copenhaver, John (25 January 2018). "Blacklight: Series Debut 'The Last Place You Look' Promises a Complex, No-Nonsense Bisexual Heroine". Lambda Literary.
  3. Hartwell, Elena. "a book review by Elena Hartwell: The Stories You Tell: A Mystery (Roxane Weary)". www.nyjournalofbooks.com. New York Journal of Books.
  4. Hannah, Sophie (2 August 2018). "Sophie Hannah: By the Book". The New York Times.
  5. "Lepionka's keen eye for integrating national news and technology into her developing characters' plotlines produces a story..." Kirkus Reviews.
  6. Norfolk, Pam. "Once You Go This Far by Kristen Lepionka: Good, old-fashioned detective work with a delicious contemporary spin - book review -". Lancashire Evening Post.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.