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Everyone's favorite sleuth―Vera Kelly―is back and put to the test as she searches for her missing girlfriend. It's spring 1971 and 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-one, prepares for the trip with equal parts dread and anger. Upon arriving, Vera is shocked by the size and extravagance of the Comstock estate--the sprawling, manicured landscape; expansive and ornate buildings; and garages full of luxury cars reveal a privileged upbringing that, up until this point, Max had only hinted at--while 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 at dinner when Max threatens to alert her mother--and her mother's lawyers--to St. James and her father's plans using marital assets. The next morning, when Vera wakes up, Max is gone. In Vera Kelly: Lost and Found, Rosalie Knecht gives Vera her highest-stake 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.

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A luxurious SoCal caper. -- Lamda Literary Brilliant...A delicious mix of taut mystery, family drama, and queer romance. -- iBooks Elisabeth Rodgers is a talented narrator who is highly suited to portraying the strong and resourceful private detective and...gives all the characters in the story vivid, distinctive personalities. -- AudioFile Gritty yet romantic...The internal tension is palpable, and the humorous moments offer tremendous relief. -- Booklist (starred review) I've anticipated few novels this year with as much excitement as Vera Kelly Lost and Found, the final volume in Rosalie Knecht's nearly note-perfect 1960s-era private detective trilogy...Knecht's writing, crisp and taut, cuts through the landscape with lacerating swiftness. -- New York Times Book Review Mapping a perilous course through the underbelly of California cults...[and] the mental health 'cures' of the 1970s...Filled with well-drawn, quirky characters, the novel captures both the hidden pleasures and not so hidden dangers of a closeted existence. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Once more Rosalie Knecht proves herself one of the finest writers in the genre...This novel is a pleasure as wise as it is thrilling. -- Tracy O'Neill, author of Quotients Recasts cozy mysteries through a queer lens...with women occupying center stage, saving each other and functioning as heroes. -- Foreword Reviews Romantic and thrilling. -- Minneapolis Star Tribune

"A luxurious SoCal caper. -- ""Lamda Literary"" Brilliant...A delicious mix of taut mystery, family drama, and queer romance. -- ""iBooks"" Elisabeth Rodgers is a talented narrator who is highly suited to portraying the strong and resourceful private detective and...gives all the characters in the story vivid, distinctive personalities. -- ""AudioFile"" Gritty yet romantic...The internal tension is palpable, and the humorous moments offer tremendous relief. -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" I've anticipated few novels this year with as much excitement as Vera Kelly Lost and Found, the final volume in Rosalie Knecht's nearly note-perfect 1960s-era private detective trilogy...Knecht's writing, crisp and taut, cuts through the landscape with lacerating swiftness. -- ""New York Times Book Review"" Mapping a perilous course through the underbelly of California cults...[and] the mental health 'cures' of the 1970s...Filled with well-drawn, quirky characters, the novel captures both the hidden pleasures and not so hidden dangers of a closeted existence. -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)"" Once more Rosalie Knecht proves herself one of the finest writers in the genre...This novel is a pleasure as wise as it is thrilling. -- ""Tracy O'Neill, author of Quotients"" Recasts cozy mysteries through a queer lens...with women occupying center stage, saving each other and functioning as heroes. -- ""Foreword Reviews"" Romantic and thrilling. -- ""Minneapolis Star Tribune"""

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Rosalie Knecht is the author of Who is Vera Kelly? and Relief Map, and the translator of C�sar Aira's The Seamstress and the Wind. She lives in New Jersey. What do you do with a BA in English from Princeton University? You go to New York to pursue an acting career, and end up putting all of your skills together as an audiobook narrator. Elisabeth Rodgers first started recording audiobooks for the National Library Service of the Library of Congress at the American Foundation for the Blind (Talking Book Productions) in New York City. After she had numerous titles under her belt, she branched out, and has since narrated over 100 titles for a variety of publishers. She was the recipient of an Audie Award for the full-cast recording of Sherlock's Secret Life in 2000. Her work on The Last Chinese Chef, Annexed, The Naked Eye, and Mapping the Heavens garnered AudioFile magazine's prized Earphones Awards, and she was lucky enough to join the star-studded cast of Audible, Inc.'s Audie-nominated production of The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, as well as the Earphones-winning MetaBook audio-drama production of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Elisabeth continues to work both onstage and in the studio. She lives in the Lower East Side of New York City.

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