Loved this book, just as good as the first and I hope there are many more to come. Vera Kelly is complicated, gutsy, insecure and just a fascinating character. The other characters in the book are just as interesting and the story is interesting in itself. More please!

Not much of a mystery/espionage buff but I really enjoyed this one! Second book in a sleuth-centric series of which I haven't read the first one, so i don't know how it compares to WHO IS VERA KELLY? but this is a good solid spy story with a hint of the noir. I like the unusual choice of a female ex-CIA-turned-PI, and i appreciated the realistic depiction of how persecuted women in general were at this time, but particularly queer women. Pulpy, but entertaining well-written pulp. And, having recently read a "traditional" spy novel absolutely steeped in the male gaze (female characters often appraised for their cup size, an assumption that every woman is thrilled to be groped by a rando, etc), it was refreshing to read a story of that sort free of chop-licking sexism. It's not that Vera is sexless--she meets pretty girls and hooks up with them. She just doesn't treat them like sexual Kleenex. Thumbs up!