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ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POSTS BEST MYSTERY BOOKS OF THE YEAR Introducing Claudia Lin: a sharp-witted amateur sleuth for the 21st century. This debut novel follows Claudia as she verifies peoples online lives, and lies, for a dating detective agency in New York City. Until a client with an unusual request goes missing.
The world of social media, big tech and internet connectivity provides fertile new ground for humans to deceive, defraud and possibly murder one another. Well rendered and charming. Original and intriguing. The New York Times Book Review
Claudia is used to disregarding her fractious familys model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a nice Chinese boy. Shes also used to keeping secrets from them, such as that she prefers girlsand that shes just been stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referrals-only online-dating detective agency.
A lifelong mystery reader who wrote her senior thesis on Jane Austen, Claudia believes shes landed her ideal job. But when a client vanishes, Claudia breaks protocol to investigateand uncovers a maelstrom of personal and corporate deceit. Part literary mystery, part family story, The Verifiers is a clever and incisive examination of how technology shapes our choices, and the nature of romantic love in the digital age.
Author: Jane Pek
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/22/2022
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780593313794
Language: English
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