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VERA KELLY IS NOT A MYSTERY

Rosalie Knecht

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.

Rosalie Knecht is a social worker in New York City and was born and raised in Pennsylvania. She is the translator of Cesar Aira's The Seamstress and the Wind a nd has been a Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow and a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Argentina. She has been published in Stonecutter and The New York Times and was invited to ABA's 2018 Winter Institute. Her novels, Relief Map and Who Is Vera Kelly? were published by Tin House Books.
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Published 2020-06-12 by Tin House

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Knecht'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.

VERA KELLY IS NOT A MYSTERY is *An iBooks Best Book of the Month* *A CrimeReads Most Anticipated Book of 2020* *A Best Summer Read at Autostraddle and Alma*

UK: No Exit / Verve

Knecht's stylish mystery is impossible to put down and just begging for a third instalment.

WINNER OF THE 2021 SUE GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD

Readers will be thrilled by Vera Kelly's return. A worthy and welcome continuation of a subversive series.

With 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.

Rosalie Knecht is an audacious talent, and her latest novel a propulsive, subversive gem. Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery 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.

Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery is an intricate mystery featuring love, corruption, and a charming and capable heroine.