Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery
Rosalie Knecht
(Author)
Description
An Autostraddle Best Queer Book of 2020
A CrimeReads Best Espionage Novel of 2020
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.
Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
Tin House Books
Publish Date
June 16, 2020
Pages
264
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.5 X 0.9 inches | 0.7 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781947793798
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About the Author
Rosalie Knecht is the author of Who is Vera Kelly?, Vera Kelly is not a Mystery, 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 Relief Map, and a translation of Aira's The Seamstress and the Wind. She lives in Jersey City, NJ.
Reviews
Gripping, magnificently written . . . This is a cool, strolling boulevardier of a book, worldly, wry, unrushed but never slow, which casts its gaze upon the middle of the last century and forces us to consider how it might be failing us still.
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.--Idra Novey, author of THOSE WHO KNEW
Readers will be thrilled by Vera Kelly's return. A worthy and welcome continuation of a subversive series.
Forget about 007. This heroine has her own brand of spycraft...
Knecht's novel is a slow-burn espionage thriller, a complex treatment of queer identity, and an immersive period piece all rolled into one delectable page-turner . . . Vera Kelly introduces a fascinating new spy to literature's mystery canon.
A splendid genre-pushing thriller . . . A fractured coming-out in the repressive '50s primed Vera for a life of deception?but in Knecht's expert hands she's smart and complicated, yearning for connection in a tumultuous world."
Thanks to Rosalie Knecht's clever, hilarious writing, you'll find yourself wanting everyone you know to read it so that you can discuss together the wholly original, brilliantly subversive character that is Vera Kelly.
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.
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.--Idra Novey, author of THOSE WHO KNEW
Readers will be thrilled by Vera Kelly's return. A worthy and welcome continuation of a subversive series.
Forget about 007. This heroine has her own brand of spycraft...
Knecht's novel is a slow-burn espionage thriller, a complex treatment of queer identity, and an immersive period piece all rolled into one delectable page-turner . . . Vera Kelly introduces a fascinating new spy to literature's mystery canon.
A splendid genre-pushing thriller . . . A fractured coming-out in the repressive '50s primed Vera for a life of deception?but in Knecht's expert hands she's smart and complicated, yearning for connection in a tumultuous world."
Thanks to Rosalie Knecht's clever, hilarious writing, you'll find yourself wanting everyone you know to read it so that you can discuss together the wholly original, brilliantly subversive character that is Vera Kelly.
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.
