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The Verifiers

BuchKartoniert, Paperback
368 Seiten
Englisch
Vintageerschienen am22.02.2022
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S 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 people's 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 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 digital age.mehr
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KlappentextONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S 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 people's 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 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 digital age.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-593-31379-4
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum22.02.2022
Erstverkaufstag22.02.2022
Seiten368 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht256 g
Artikel-Nr.58294580
Rubriken
GenreRomane Hardcover

Inhalt/Kritik

Kritik
A twisty and smart mystery about online dating algorithms layered with a poignant tale about second-generation Asian American identity.
Emily Burack, Alma, Alma s Favorite Books for Winter 2022

Pek s thoughtful, well-constructed debut introduces irrepressible Claudia Lin. . . . This nuanced novel will leave readers eagerly awaiting Pek s next book.
Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A cool, cerebral, and very funny novel. . . . Claudia is the seductive protagonist in a tale that delves into the dark heart of contemporary technology, not to mention the foibles of the human heart. With an inquisitive, clever, and curious narrator, this adventurous mystery is both scary and hilarious.
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

This book is exhilaratingly well-written. I loved it so much that I didn t want it to end.
Emily St. John Mandel, bestselling author of The Glass Hotel

A clever and thought-provoking mystery laced with wit and insights about technology and relationships, who we are and who we pretend to be. Smart, twisty fun.
Charles Yu, National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown

Suspenseful and hilarious, The Verifiers builds on the tropes of the whodunnit to bring us something entirely new. In quick-witted gumshoe Claudia Lin, Pek has created an irresistible heroine who must untangle her own family drama even as she investigates the malfeasance of warring online-dating platforms. This novel is a genre-defying joy!
Anna North, New York Times bestselling author of Outlawed

The Verifiers is both witty and profound, at once a propulsive read and a meditation on our moment. Jane Pek delivers an intricate murder mystery, a portrait of fraught family dynamics, and an interrogation of algorithmic matchmaking. Claudia Lin is a memorable and magnetic protagonist, and this debut is riveting, a twinkle in its eye even as it takes on deep questions about how technology enhances and intrudes on our lives.
Helen Phillips, author of The Needmehr

Autor

JANE PEK was born and grew up in Singapore. She holds a BA from Yale University, a JD from the New York University School of Law, and an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College. Her short fiction has appeared in The Brooklyn Review, Witness, Conjunctions, Literary Hub, and twice in The Best American Short Stories. She currently lives in New York, where she works as a lawyer at a global investment company.
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