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Also by Sara Gran:

Come Closer, October 2023
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Claire Dewitt And The Bohemian Highway, June 2013
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Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, June 2011
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CLAIRE DEWITT AND THE CITY OF THE DEAD
By: Sara Gran

Houghton Mifflin Company
June 2011
On Sale: June 2, 2011
288 pages
ISBN: 0547428499
EAN: 9780547428499
Paperback
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Suspense

Claire DeWitt is not your average private investigator. She has brilliant deductive skills and is an ace at discovering evidence. 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.

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. Claire is investigating the disappearance of Vic Willing, a prosecutor known for winning convictions in a homicide- plagued city. 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.

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.

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Talk of the Nation - June 16, 2011