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Spring 1971. Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave their cosy
Brooklyn apartment for an emergency visit to Max's estranged family
in Los Angeles. Max's parents are divorcing - her father is already
engaged to a much younger woman and under the sway of an occultist
charlatan; her mother has left their estate in a hurry with no
indication of return. Max, who hasn't seen her family since they
threw her out at twenty-one, prepares for the trip with equal parts
dread and anger. Upon arriving, Vera is shocked by the size and
extravagance of the family estate which reveals a privileged
upbringing that, up until this point, Max had only hinted at.
Tensions boil over at dinner as Max attempts to navigate her
father, who is hostile and controlling, and the occultist, St
James, who is charming but appears to be siphoning family money.
The next morning, when Vera wakes up, Max is gone... In Vera Kelly
Lost and Found, Rosalie Knecht gives Vera her highest-stakes case
yet, as Vera quickly puts her private detective skills to good use
and tracks a trail of breadcrumbs across southern California to
find her missing girlfriend. She travels first to a film set in
Santa Ynez and, ultimately, to a most unlikely destination where
Vera has to decide how much she is willing to commit to save the
woman she loves.
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.
New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and
blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's
working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp
tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the
CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with
wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student
activists in Buenos Aires. As Vera becomes more and more enmeshed
with the young radicals, the fragile local government begins to
split at the seams. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake
of a coup, Vera learns war makes for strange and unexpected
bedfellows, and she's forced to take extreme measures to save
herself. An exhilarating page turner and perceptive coming-of-age
story, Who is Vera Kelly? introduces an original, wry and
whip-smart female spy for the twenty-first century.
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