The Rivals (Claudia Lin #2) by Jane Pek
For fans of unique detective agencies, character-driven murder mysteries, and family drama!
Claudia Lin is now co-running Veracity, a detective agency that you hire in order to find out if the person you matched with on dating apps is actually telling the truth and who they say they are. She also grew up reading detective novels, so she’s down for some sleuthing beyond the work assigned: when murders appearing related to work occur, she gets to solving them. This time around, there’s some shady business going on with dating apps and AI that Claudia and her team are determined to get to the bottom of, all while working through a new crush and juggling family drama as the youngest child who was treated differently than her siblings growing up.
You’re given all the information you need to not be lost in The Rivals, but it hinges on things that happened in the first book. So if you want to start there, pick up The Verifiers!