![]() 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 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. The book serves as something between a field manual and a spiritual text for Claire DeWitt, the PI created by author Sara Gran. Claire DeWitt is not your average private investigator. ![]()
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