I can't wait for the next one." - Alafair Burke, author of LONG GONE With Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, Sara Gran has pulled the traditional female sleuth into the twenty-first century with a novel that's smart and hip, dark and funny. "Not your mother's girl detective, Claire DeWitt is a cool blend of Nancy Drew and Sid Vicious.
Everything here - from the smallest touches to the grander mythology setting the tone of the series - just sings."-Drew Williams, Little Professor Book Center Gran's evocation of the exposed wounds of New Orleans - before and after the storm - is a master-class in descriptive and emotive writing, and Claire is one of the most exciting new characters in years a Raymond Chandler heroine with just enough of an off-beat vibe to tilt the whole thing enticingly off-kilter. "I just burned through Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, and it's the first truly fantastic book I've read this year. Sara Gran recombines all the elements of good, solid story-telling and lifts something original from a well-loved form."-Sue Grafton This is the first fresh literary voice I've heard in years. And while I confess to having very little objectivity about New Orleans and no credentials to judge its literary portrayal, this is a valuable addition to the (way too small) body of post-storm novels."-Laura Lippman 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.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 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. 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. She has brilliant deductive skills and is an ace at discovering evidence. Claire DeWitt is not your average private investigator.
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