The Verifiers [electronic resource]

Jane Pek2025

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** A finalist for the Joseph Hansen Award for LGBTQ Crime Writing ** ** Longlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award ** Introducing Claudia Lin: a sharp-witted heroine for the 21st century. Claudia Lin is used to disregarding her fractious family's model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a nice Chinese boy. She's also used to keeping secrets from them, such as that she prefers girls - and that she's 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 she's landed her ideal job. But when a client vanishes, Claudia breaks protocol to investigate - and 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...