It’s a beautiful thing to see a strong female character collect the shards of a shattered life and build something stronger. Rosalie Knecht’s sophomore novel, Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery, expertly does just that by kicking off with an explosion that begins exactly where her first novel, Who is Vera Kelly?, ends. It’s Brooklyn, 1967, and in the course of one day Vera, an ex-CIA agent turned broadcaster, is fired from her job for being gay and dumped by her professor poet girlfriend. Vera is nothing if not resilient, though, and she recreates herself as a private investigator. Soon after hanging her own shingle, an older couple hires her to locate a missing boy in New York City. They claim he was sent to America while his parents were incarcerated in a Dominican Republic prison. What follows is a twisty adventurous ride through New York City’s foster care system and the Dominican Republic as Vera searches for the boy and works to return him safely to his parents.

Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery by Rosalie Knecht was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

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