# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Jane Pek, author of The Rivals - one of the "...10 Best Mystery Novels of 2024" (WaPo)
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 04:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Conversation with Jane Pek, whose novel, The Rivals, imagines AI’s dystopian impact on the world of online dating, and one of The Washington Post’s “10 Best Mystery Novels of 2024.” 

The book’s protagonist, Claudia Lin — mystery novel superfan and, until recently, underemployed English major — has scored her dream job: co-running Veracity, a dating detective agency for chronically online New Yorkers who want to know if their prospective partners are telling the truth.

Unfortunately, along the way, she and her colleagues—tech savant Squirrel, and the elegant and intimidating Becks—have uncovered a far-reaching AI conspiracy. Pek’s first book in the new Claudia Lin series was The Verifiers (2022), also a Washington Post “Best Mystery” of the year. 

4:30 p.m. Thursday, February 26
Conversation / Q&A
Campus Center Room 375
University at Albany
1400 Washington Avenue 
Albany NY 12222

Free and open to the public.
Books will be available for sale. 
A signing will follow the conversation.

More: https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org/janepek

Cosponsored by the AI & Society College and Research Center, and the Information Sciences and Technology Department of the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity (CEHC), the Honors College, and the Justice & Multiculturalism in the 21st Century Project of the School of Criminal Justice
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/albany/jane-pek-author-of-the-rivals-one-of-the-10-best-mystery-novels-of-2024-wapo/200029548092746
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 10

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Albany
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: University At Albany
- **lat**: 42.6898399
- **long**: -73.8241
- **full address**: University At Albany, 1400 Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12222-0100, United States

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- **Q**: When and where is Jane Pek, author of The Rivals - one of the "...10 Best Mystery Novels of 2024" (WaPo) being held?
  - **A:** Jane Pek, author of The Rivals - one of the "...10 Best Mystery Novels of 2024" (WaPo) takes place on Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 04:30 pm to Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 04:30 pm at University At Albany, 1400 Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12222-0100, United States.
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