Claudia is used to disregarding her fractious family’s model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a nice Chinese boy. She’s also used to keeping secrets from them, such as that she prefers girls—and that she’s just been stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referrals-only online-dating detective agency. A lifelong mystery reader who wrote her senior thesis on Jane Austen, Claudia believes she’s landed her ideal job. But when a client vanishes, Claudia breaks protocol to investigate—and uncovers a maelstrom of personal and corporate deceit.

This book has been in my TBR for a while, and I received an ARC of its sequel earlier this month, so I figured I should probably get to reading this one! This book can be described as a mix of a literary mystery and a family drama, two genres, which I very much enjoy. There were a lot of literary references throughout the book which were fun to catch. I think I enjoyed the family drama aspects of this book more than the mystery portion. At time the mystery seemed to drag on, and the final solve wasn’t as exciting as I expected. The main character spends a lot of time referencing a beloved detective from a series she enjoyed throughout her childhood. I think this helped explain her motivations and give some background to her character, but after a while, the references got to be quite excessive. But I really loved the relationship. Claudia had with her mother and siblings, and how those changed throughout the book. The book had great lesbian and Asian representation. Definitely looking forward to the next book in the series!