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. Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead is a knockout start to a bracingly original new series. When a respected DA goes missing she returns to the hurricane-ravaged city to find out why. A one-time teen detective in Brooklyn, she is a follower of the esoteric French detective Jacques Silette, whose mysterious handbook Detection inspired Claire s unusual practices.Ĭlaire also has deep roots in New Orleans, where she was mentored by Silette s student the brilliant Constance Darling until Darling was murdered.
CNNĬlaire DeWitt believes she is the world s greatest PI, even if few agree with her. like if David Lynch directed a Raymond Chandler novel. One of the genre s most original characters in years, reads. The book is beautifully written in a tight, quirky style that distinguishes Gran as one of the more original writers working today. "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 "Reminds me why I fell in love with the genre."-Laura Lippman 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. DeWitt's mesmerizing character and memorable voice take your breath away."- New Orleans Times-Picayune 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. "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 The first entry in a gritty, endlessly surprising mystery series follows the unpredictable, tough-edged, and brilliantly intuitive PI Claire DeWitt as she searches for a prosecutor who's gone missing in post-Katrina New Orleans, marking the emergence of "a distinctive new American voice in mystery fiction" (NPR's Fresh Air).īook Synopsis "Delicious and addictive." "Reads.
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