I love this book! Absolutely love it. This is the first fresh literary voice I've heard in years. - Sue Grafton, A is for Alibi Just when I begin to despair that the PI novel has worn out its welcome, a writer with a fresh take reminds me why I fell in love with the genre. --Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere With Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, Sara Gran has pulled the traditional female sleuth into the twenty-first century with a novel that's smart and hip, dark and funny. - Alafair Burke, author of LONG GONE This is not just a mystery novel but also a novel about mysteries; Claire DeWitt is a detective less by choice than by calling. With “City of the Dead,” Sara Gran has written something truly splendid and unique, and if we’re all very lucky, there will be more. -- Craig Clevenger, author of The Contortionists Handbook A big recommendation for CLAIRE DeWITT AND THE CITY OF THE DEAD. -- Sarah Weinman event schedule here. see more covers here. read what people are saying here. pre-order at:
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Welcome to Sara Gran's new series featuring the strange and briiliant detective Claire DeWitt. While Claire has excellent skills of deduction and analysis, she also uses dreams, memory, precognition, and mind-expanding herbs to help her solve mysteries. But most of all she relies on guidance from the mysterious French detective Jacques Silette and his enigmatic book, Detection. Shot through with memories of Claire's years as a girl detective in 1980s Brooklyn, these are no ordinary mysteries, but rather investigations into the very nature of mysteries themselves. What is a crime? What is a mystery? Why do some of us solve them while others pass them by? And most of all, how do we know the truth, and recognize it when we see it?
The first book (CLAIRE DEWITT & CITY OF THE DEAD) takes place in post-Katrina New Orleans, where both Claire DeWitt and her creator have deep history. Assistant district attorney Vic Willing went missing during the storm. But the clues tell Claire he didn't drown--he was murdered. And in the wreckage, Claire finds the depths to which people in crisis can sink--and the heights to which they can rise when you least expect it.