Fun and sparkling read!

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The Verifiers by Jane Pek   

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Edgy contemporary mystery that took me into the bewildering world of match making apps, compatibility algorithms, and the idea of how much information is actually out there about us. As a result of the latter I felt like closing every social media app I use, going off grid and heading for the hills.
It seems the problem with the dating apps is that all participants either stretch the truth or downright lie. That means matchings are skewed. Let me not get into the training of the bots associated with the process. Veracity is a company that will triage your date and tell you what’s what—generally after you’ve been taken for a ride. Claudia Lin can’t believe she’s landed a job with this techno edgy company. BTW her family thinks she’s still working at a financial institution. I love Claudia’s description to her friends about what Veracity does, “ “It’s really a big Sorting Hat,” I say, “that matches people up based on which Hogwarts house they belong to.” That’s in fact the premise of two boutique matchmakers I’ve come across.” 
Love that! Harry Potter references sizing up the world of internet dating. Ha!
Enter client Iris Lettriste who wants a potential date checked. There’s some implausibilities and she wants to know if her match is the real deal or a jerk. Pre-verifying a date is rather unusual.  But still the firm takes her on as a client. When Iris is found dead things become even more complicated, especially for Claudia. 
Channeling Inspector Yuan, her fictional Chinese murder hero, Claudia decides to power on to discover all that she can. Well she was doing that prior to the demise of Iris anyway. Veracity is not a detective agency. Claudia has her doubts as she gets caught up in the moment, her Yuan personae taking charge constantly.
Witty and entertaining, I was grabbed by the hilarity of Claudia and her continual inner observations, her relationship with her family, and her almost slapstick detecting abilities.

Thank you to Penguin Random House for their invitation to look at this ARC via NetGalley 
Please note: Quotes taken from an advanced reading copy maybe subject to change

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