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Publication Date: 30 June 2025
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Extent: 304 pp
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ISBN: 9780857309204
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THE VERIFIERS
A Claudia Lin Mystery No. 1
Jane Pek
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.
PRESS REVIEWS FOR The Verifiers
'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
'A funny and touching modern detective story'
- Harper's Bazaar
'The Verifiers is a debut novel, but you would never know. The plotting is labyrinthine, the writing is quirky and witty, the settings are varied and vivid and the characters leap off the page.'
- Promoting Crime Blogspot
A Claudia Lin Mystery