"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. And at the center is Claire DeWitt, a new breed of hard edged PI. Gran's narrative is complex plotlines branch off and past histories reveal themselves. Set in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina, it moves through the city like infection in an open wound. 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. Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, by Sara Gran, is a modern Noir mystery thriller. 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
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