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The Verifiers
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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.
What the critics say
One of the Year's Most Anticipated Books! - Publishers Weekly • Harper's Bazaar • Electric Lit • Literary Hub • CrimeReads • Medium • Alma • LGBTQ Reads
“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 best-selling author of Outlawed)
“This book is exhilaratingly well-written. I loved it so much that I didn’t want it to end.” (Emily St. John Mandel, best-selling author of The Glass Hotel)
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- 2022-08-02
A fun, tech-critical mystery novel – with no cops!
A fun mystery novel where the main character is a queer woman of colour who loves biking around NYC. Some good social commentary and criticism of data-hungry tech companies & their algorithmic nudging. Plus it's nice to read detective fiction with no cops!
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