Vera Kelly lost and found / Rosalie Knecht.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knecht, Rosalie, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Knecht, Rosalie. Vera Kelly series

Vera Kelly series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lesbian private investigators--Fiction.

Lesbian private investigators.

Women private investigators--Fiction.

Women private investigators.

Missing persons--Fiction.

Missing persons.

Genre:

Novels.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Lesbian fiction.

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

228 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First US edition.

Place of Publication:

Portland, Oregon : Tin House, 2022.

Summary:

"It's spring 1971 and P.I. Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave their cozy 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. Max, who hasn't seen her family since they threw her out at the age of twenty-two, prepares for the trip with equal parts dread and anger. Upon arriving, Vera is shocked by the size and extravagance of the Comstock estate, which reveal a privileged upbringing that, up until this point, Max had only hinted at. That evening, at dinner, Max attempts to navigate her father, who is hostile and controlling, and the occultist, St. James, who is charming but appears to be siphoning family money. Tensions boil over when Max threatens to alert her mother--and her mother's lawyers--to St. James and her father's plans to use marital assets. The next morning, when Vera wakes up, Max is gone. In Vera Kelly Lost and Found, Rosalie Knecht gives Vera her highest-stakes case yet, as Vera quickly puts her private detective skills to good use and tracks a trail of breadcrumbs across southern California to find her missing girlfriend. She travels first to a film set in Santa Ynez and, ultimately, to a most unlikely destination where Vera has to decide how much she is willing to commit to save the woman she loves"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Inclues readers guide (pages 227-228).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781953534163

1953534163

OCLC:

1290888460