Vera Kelly Is Not A Mystery
by Rosalie Knecht
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Pub Date 6 Apr 2021 | Archive Date 15 Apr 2021
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Description
NOMINATED FOR THE 2021 SUE GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD
The 'splendid genre-pushing' (People) Vera Kelly series returns in full force as our recently out-of-the-spy-game heroine finds herself traveling from Brooklyn to a sprawling countryside estate in the Caribbean in her first case as a private investigator.
When ex-CIA agent Vera Kelly loses her job and her girlfriend in a single day, she reluctantly goes into business as a private detective. Heartbroken and cash-strapped, she takes a case that dredges up dark memories and attracts dangerous characters from across the Cold War landscape. Before it's over, she'll chase a lost child through foster care and follow a trail of Dominican exiles to the Caribbean. Forever looking over her shoulder, she nearly misses what's right in front of her: her own desire for home, connection, and a new romance at the local bar.
In this exciting second installment of the Vera Kelly series, Rosalie Knecht challenges and deepens the Vera we love: a woman of sparkling wit, deep moral fiber, and martini-dry humor who knows how to follow a case even as she struggles to follow her heart.
Advance Praise
'Gripping, magnificently written . . . This is a cool, strolling boulevardier of a book, worldly, wry, unrushed but never slow, which casts its gaze upon the middle of the last century and forces us to consider how it might be failing us still' - Charles Finch on Who is Vera Kelly?, New York Times Book Review
'Knecht's excellent sequel... This winning literary page-turner gives a strong sense of a smart, queer, and complex person navigating an unfriendly world' - Publisher’s Weekly
'Impossible to put down and just begging for a third installment' - Bruce Tierney, Bookpage
'Knecht's prose is... lively in moments of action... Readers will be thrilled by Vera Kelly's return. A worthy and welcome continuation of a subversive series' - Kirkus
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780857308122 |
| PRICE | £9.99 (GBP) |
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Featured Reviews
Fionn O, Educator
Gritty, humourous and fun. Knecht packs a punch with the newest installment in the Vera Kelly series. I can certainly see students enjoying this novel.
Katie R, Reviewer
Another subtle and convincing work in the Vera Kelly series that rises to an emotional ending.
Vera is one of a kind, and I was happy to be back in her company. She's so clever but winds up caught up in a real mess with dangerous people. Vera doesn't have the backing of the CIA to rely on here but still finds a way to survive a very tense encounter in San Cristobal and to survive risking her heart too.
Once again, the descriptions of place are wonderful from a going to seed mansion in San Cristobal to the tourist towns of upstate New York.
Vera's tenacity is once again to be admired, she's a little more jaded than in book one, but not as jaded as she'd like to think.
Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.
