Description

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 digital age.

Publisher Review

Your go-to summer read… Really fun and will keep you hooked — Emily Henry, author of Beach Read This book is exhilaratingly well-written. I loved it so much that I didn’t want it to end — Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven Pek’s engrossing debut novel gives us a thoroughly modern twist on classic detective fiction * New York Times (Editors’ Choice) * This astute, page-turning debut sheds light on the necessities and limitations of interpersonal interaction, the role technology plays in its evolution (and de-evolution), and what it means to be human and looking for love in the 21st century * BuzzFeed * Clever, dryly funny… This is a fascinating, carefully layered mystery novel as well as a love letter to New York City and complicated families * Washington Post *