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Publication Date: 6 April 2021
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Extent: 240 pp
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ISBN: 9780857308122
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VERA KELLY IS NOT A MYSTERY
A Vera Kelly Novel No. 2
WINNER OF 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 fibre, and martini-dry humour who knows how to follow a case even as she struggles to follow her heart.
READER REVIEWS FOR VERA KELLY IS NOT A MYSTERY
PRESS REVIEWS FOR Vera Kelly Is Not A Mystery
'Vera, outwardly cool but inwardly seething, makes for great company. Rosalie Knecht - proving it can be done - has created something truly original'
- Times (Crime Club)
'Unfolding in a persuasively evoked 1967, this smart, stylish mystery fizzes with wit and intrigue'
- Irish Times (Crime Book of the Year)
'The story is filled with twists and turns that will keep readers guessing until the very end.
The author does an excellent job of depicting the ways in which the character's experiences of gender and sexuality intersect, and how it affects her life, relationships, and sense of self'
- Queer in the World
'Knecht writes crisply, with salt and sharp wit...a smart, intelligent mystery'
- Declan Hughes, Irish Times
'Wonderfully sardonic yet compassionate heroine. Definitely a series to watch'
- John Williams, Mail on Sunday
'A short, smart, rewarding detective novel with real heart'
- LoveReading
'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
'Rosalie Knecht is an audacious talent, and her latest novel a propulsive, subversive gem. [Vera is] one of the most compelling and complex characters in modern fiction... an intriguing mystery that will keep you guessing until the very end'
- Lauren Wilkinson, author of American Spy
'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
'Knecht's writing is evocative and spare, stylish and brooding, making this mystery series compulsively readable and offering a refreshing spin on atmospheric noir with a compelling queer historical frame'
- Heather Booth, Booklist
'An intricate mystery featuring love, corruption, and a charming and capable heroine'
- Delia Stanley, Foreword
'Rosalie Knecht has resurrected the detective novel for the 21st century. Sharp, self-possessed, and with a
nuanced, meaningful knowledge of realities and histories well beyond her own, Kelly's take on who's
lying and why makes for riveting reading in every scene. I tore through this book. More Vera Kelly, please'
- Idra Novey, author of Those Who Knew
'Knecht writes with dry wit and honesty. This is a small book, but extensive in its ability to tell a story with a PI who is like no one you've ever met!'
- Historical Novel Society
AUTHOR LINKS
Rosalie Knecht talks to Crime Time
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