![]() ![]() Littered with memories of Claire’s years as a girl detective in 1980s Brooklyn, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead is a knockout start to a bracingly original new series. Has an angry criminal enacted revenge on Vic? Or did he use the storm as a means to disappear? Claire follows the clues, finding old friends and making new enemies-foremost among them Andray Fairview, a young gang member who just might hold the key to the mystery. Claire is investigating the disappearance of Vic Willing, a prosecutor known for winning convictions in a homicide- plagued city. ![]() ![]() The tattooed, pot-smoking Claire has just arrived in post-Katrina New Orleans, the city she’s avoided since her mentor, Silette’s student Constance Darling, was murdered there. Gran's narrative is complex plotlines branch off and past histories reveal themselves. On its surface, the story is about private investigator Claire DeWitt's search for a missing prosecutor in post-Katrina New Orleans, but to paraphrase a line from the movie 'JFK,' this novel is a. Set in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina, it moves through the city like infection in an open wound. Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway Sara Gran 3/5 - 16 ratings 'A distinctive new American voice in mystery fiction. ![]() But Claire also uses her dreams, omens, and mind-expanding herbs to help her solve mysteries, and relies on Détection - the only book published by the late, great, and mysterious French detective Jacques Silette. Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, by Sara Gran, is a modern Noir mystery thriller. She has brilliant deductive skills and is an ace at discovering evidence. Claire DeWitt is not your average private investigator. ![]()
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