When you are on a dating app, how do you know that the “person” you are talking to or matched with is an actual person rather than a bot that helps increase the match numbers for the dating site?  Enter Veracity an exclusive online dating detective agency who helps you find out whether your true love is actually who they say they are. What an intriguing premise for a book!

Claudia has been bucking her family’s expectations for years. Her mother wants her to marry a nice, stable, Chinese boy. Her brother, who works for a large hedge fund wants her to go into software design or finance, but Claudia doesn’t want any of those things. First she prefers girls, and second she just accepted a job with Veracity, an online dating detective agency with an exclusive clientele, but she can never tell her family, these things because of the disappointment and upset it would cause.

Claudia who loves mystery novels, embraces the tedious detective work necessary to verify peoples online identities. But when one of Veracity’s clients dies under mysterious circumstances, Claudia’s suspicions and her book honed sleuthing skills cause her to break protocol and dig deeper into the case. Soon she uncovers a web of lies, identity fraud, and corporate and personal wrong doing and is soon enveloped both professionally and personally in the chaos that her investigation unleashes. Claudia must now use all her skills and the wisdom she has internalized from her favorite fictional detective to confront the wrong doers and be courageous enough to be truthful to her family.

This was such a fun book! Claudia is kind of adorable with her constant references to her favorite detective, which taps into a long buried secret longing of my own to be just like Miss Marple. The juxtaposition of her personal life and the complicated relationships she has with her family, is also interesting and poignant. I hope to read a lot more from Jane Pek!

Brenda’s Rating: **** (4 Out of 5 Stars)

Recommend this book to: Sharon, Marian, Lauren and Keith

Books Study Worthy? yes

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