![]() ![]() 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. ![]() (Claire also shows how connected and competent she is in tying up the case beyond just solving it, in seeing to it that. She has brilliant deductive skills and is an ace at discovering evidence. The case at the center of Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead is solid enough, if relatively unexceptional, but the steps (and risks) Gran has Claire take are reasonably exciting - helped by the local color and characters. Claire DeWitt is not your average private investigator. ![]()
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