num_pages: 358
description: Introducing a sharp-witted heroine for the 21st century: a new amateur sleuth exploring the landscapeboth physical and virtualof New York in a debut novel about love technology and murder.Claudia Lin is used to disregarding her fractious familys model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a nice Chinese boy. Shes also used to keeping secrets from them such as that she prefers girlsand 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 goes missing Claudia breaks protocol to investigateand 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.
language: English
title: The Verifiers
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group