2024年12月20日 · In “The Rivals,” Claudia and Becks Rittel are the co-owners of the fact-checking firm Veracity. It’s a tiny business — it only has one other employee, the unkempt gamer Squirrel — but helps clients of giant matchmaking platforms make sure the strangers they meet for dates are not unscrupulous liars or worse.

2022年7月11日 · Claudia’s superiors, supervisor Becks Rittel and boss Komla Astina, ignore Claudia’s concerns. They tell her to move on. She can’t. The detective gene is in her blood. Claudia’s relentless search for the truth provides the main thrust of the novel. Claudia’s preferred mode of transportation is a bicycle. She rides it throughout the city.

2024年12月26日 · In “The Rivals,” Claudia and Becks Rittel are the co-owners of the fact-checking firm Veracity. It’s a tiny business — it only has one other employee, the unkempt gamer Squirrel — but helps...

2024年12月16日 · In “The Rivals,” Claudia and Becks Rittel are the co-owners of the fact-checking firm Veracity. It’s a tiny business — it only has one other employee, the unkempt gamer Squirrel — but helps...

2022年2月22日 · “The world of social media, big tech and internet connectivity provides fertile new ground for humans to deceive, defraud and possibly murder one another.... Well rendered and charming....

2022年2月28日 · The book jolts into a higher, wilder gear when the stranger, less predictable and possibly malevolent figures arrive, especially the glamorous Becks Rittel, the “Blonde Assassin,” who has a gift...

2022年3月4日 · Komla and Becks are ready to write off Iris’s bill as a loss before promptly forgetting about her, but Claudia feels that there’s much more to this story. The more she investigates, the more she learns about what her bosses are hiding from her. Will she jeopardize the job she loves in order to get to the truth?

2024年12月21日 · In The Rivals, Claudia and Becks Rittel are the co-owners of the factchecki­ng firm Veracity. It’s a tiny business – it only has one other employee, the unkempt gamer Squirrel – but helps clients of giant matchmakin­g platforms make sure the strangers they meet for dates are not unscrupulo­us liars or worse.

2025年1月5日 · A curt, tough-minded colleague in her mid-30s, Becks is nicknamed the “Blonde Assassin.” In short order, both cases present Claudia with false turns, odd developmen­ts and scary possibilit­ies. These twists make “The Rivals” a modern mystery unfolding amid synthetic culprits — cyberworld bots known as “synths” — that can wreck ...

2024年12月16日 · In “The Rivals,” Claudia and Becks Rittel are the co-owners of the fact-checking firm Veracity. It’s a tiny business — it only has one other employee, the unkempt gamer Squirrel — but helps clients of giant matchmaking platforms make sure the strangers they meet for dates are not unscrupulous liars or worse.