Sara Gran has long specialized in shaking up and revitalizing other corners of the genre world, so it’s no surprise that she performs this same magic in CLAIRE DEWITT AND THE CITY OF THE DEAD. 'Just when I begin to despair that the PI novel has worn out its welcome, a writer with a fresh take reminds me why I fell in love with the genre. “Reminds me why I fell in love with the genre.”-Laura Lippman “The hard-living, wisecracking titular detective bounces around post-Katrina New Orleans trying to track down a missing prosecutor in this auspicious debut of a new mystery series-and the Big Easy is every bit her equal in sass and flavor.”- Elle When a respected DA goes missing she returns to the hurricane-ravaged city to find out why.

Claire also has deep roots in New Orleans, where she was mentored by Silette’s student the brilliant Constance Darling-until Darling was murdered.

A one-time teen detective in Brooklyn, she is a follower of the esoteric French detective Jacques Silette, whose mysterious handbook Détection inspired Claire’s unusual practices. This knock-out start to a bracingly original new series features Claire DeWitt, the world’s greatest PI-at least, that's what she calls herself. DeWitt’s mesmerizing character and memorable voice take your breath away.”- New Orleans Times-Picayune “What would you get if that punkish dragon girl Lisbeth Salander met up with Jim Sallis’s Lew Griffin walking the back streets of New Orleans? Or Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone transformed herself into a tattooed magnolia driving a 4x4? Clare DeWitt, that’s what you’d get. as if David Lynch directed a Raymond Chandler novel.”-CNN 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.“Reads. 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.

But Claire also uses her dreams, omens, and mind expanding herbs to help her solve mysteries, and relies on D tection the only book published by the late, great, and mysterious French detective Jacques Silette.

She has brilliant deductive skills and is an ace at discovering evidence. Claire DeWitt is not your average private investigator.

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