Rosalie Knecht

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....

The splendid genre-pushing (People) Vera Kelly series returns in full force as our recently out-of-the-spy-game heroine finds herself travelling 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...