barbara fister reviewed Verifiers by Jane Pek
Review of 'Verifiers' on 'LibraryThing'
What a strange, but intriguing book. A young woman goes to work for a secretive firm that investigates online dating relationships. But only under tightly-controlled rules, which gets the young woman in trouble when she grows too determined to detect on behalf of a murdered client (who was, apparently, a struggling writer investigating dating services using her sister's identity). Our heroine is a mystery fan, and she can't resist seeing her life as a story. returnreturnIt's not the most suspenseful narrative, but it's original and asks some interesting questions about self-representation, online relationships, and the ways these systems are kept in a black box.