Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead

Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead

by Sara Gran
Delicious and addictive. Salon.com The book is beautifully written in a tight, quirky style that distinguishes Gran as one of the more original writers working today. Bruce DeSilva, Associated Press One of the genre s most original characters in years, reads . . . as if David Lynch directed a Raymond Chandler novel. CNNClaire DeWitt believes she is the world s greatest PI, even if few agree with her. A one-time teen detective in Brooklyn, she is a follower of the esoteric French detective Jacques Silette, whose mysterious handbook D tection inspired Claire s unusual practices.Claire also has deep roots in New Orleans, where she was mentored by Silette s student the brilliant Constance Darling until Darling was murdered. When a respected DA goes missing she returns to the hurricane-ravaged city to find out why.Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead is a knockout start to a bracingly original new seri…