{"product_id":"vera-kelly-is-not-a-mystery-isbn-9781947793798","title":"Vera Kelly Is Not A Mystery","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2021 Edgar Award – G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Lambda Literary Awards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe “splendid genre-pushing” (\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e) 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.The \u003ci\u003eVera\u003c\/i\u003e books bring to mind some of Highsmith’s work’s murkiness, evasion, and freedom. . . . Where will the next case for Vera come from? . . . I hope we don’t have to wait long to find out.\n—Los Angeles Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVera Kelly Is Not a Mystery\u003c\/i\u003e is the perfect sequel, because it’s even better than the first book. . . . Reader, you will love this one. Don’t walk. Run.\n—Autostraddle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSharp. . .  the biggest pleasure is how she evokes a not-so-distant time with specific, slightly outdated language (Kelly stores bullets in an empty 'cold cream jar') and period details (Kelly lives in pre-Stonewall Greenwich Village, so her local pub is subject to frequent police raids and her chums get fired because of whom they love).—The Star Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSnappy, gritty, and engaging.—them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSexy, sad and stylish.—BookPage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders will be thrilled by Vera Kelly’s return. A worthy and welcome continuation of a subversive series.—Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKnecht'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.—Booklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVera Kelly is Not a Mystery\u003c\/i\u003e is an intricate mystery featuring love, corruption, and a charming and capable heroine.\n—Foreword Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRosalie Knecht is an audacious talent, and her latest novel a propulsive, subversive gem. \u003ci\u003eVera Kelly is Not a Mystery\u003c\/i\u003e reintroduces us to Vera, one of the most compelling and complex characters in modern fiction, and puts her to the task of unwinding an intriguing mystery that will keep you guessing until the very end.\n—Lauren Wilkinson, author of American Spy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith Vera Kelly, 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGripping, magnificently\nwritten . . . This is a cool, strolling boulevardier of a book, worldly, wry,\nunrushed but never slow, which casts its gaze upon the middle of the last\ncentury and forces us to consider how it might be failing us still.—The New York Times Book Review, on Who Is Vera Kelly?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe personal is most definitely political in Rosalie Knecht's crisp, lively and subversive second novel, \u003ci\u003eWho Is Vera Kelly?\u003c\/i\u003e . . . John le Carré and many other writers make hay with the personal repercussions of assuming false identity. Knecht flips the terms artfully, showing us a heroine who discovers her true tough self by going undercover.\n—NPR, “Best Books of 2018”, on Who Is Vera Kelly?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForget about 007. This\nheroine has her own brand of spycraft...—The Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKnecht’s novel is a\nslow-burn espionage thriller, a complex treatment of queer identity, and an\nimmersive period piece all rolled into one delectable page-turner . . . Vera\nKelly introduces a fascinating new spy to literature’s mystery canon.—Entertainment Weekly, on Who Is Vera Kelly?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA splendid genre-pushing\nthriller . . . A fractured coming-out in the repressive '50s primed Vera for a\nlife of deception?but in Knecht's expert hands she's smart and complicated,\nyearning for connection in a tumultuous world.”—People, on Who Is Vera Kelly?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThanks to Rosalie Knecht's\nclever, hilarious writing, you'll find yourself wanting everyone you know to\nread it so that you can discuss together the wholly original, brilliantly\nsubversive character that is Vera Kelly.—NYLON, on Who Is Vera Kelly?\u003cb\u003eRosalie Knecht\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eWho is Vera Kelly?\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVera Kelly is not a Mystery\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Edgar Award, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, as well as a \u003ci\u003eRelief Map\u003c\/i\u003e, and a translation of Aira's \u003ci\u003eThe Seamstress and the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e. 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