( Starred review.) As brash and bold as Sherlock Holmes himself, Claire DeWitt arrives in still-chaotic New Orleans 18 months after Katrina. Claire is a charmer, but there’s nothing cute about her paranormal visions of a city living in torment. Claire prowls the darkest corners of, eyes wide open to the suffering and despair of its shell-shocked residents. He exotic person of Claire DeWitt a supremely confident detective who reads the clues she finds in dreams, the I Ching and scraps of garbage that float up from the street. Gran had many jobs, primarily with books, working at Manhattan bookstores like Shakespeare & Co, The Strand, and Housing Works, and selling used & rare books on her own.

She now resides in the state of California.īefore making a living as a writer, Ms. Since then she has traveled widely and lived throughout the US including Miami and New Orleans. Her work has been published in over a dozen countries in nearly fifteen languages.īorn in Brooklyn in 1971, Ms.

Sara Gran is the author of the novels Dope, Come Closer, Saturn's Return to New York, and the Claire DeWitt detective series (2011).

Where-Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.

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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