![]() Her primary investigative tools are dreams, drugs, the I Ching, and a dog-eared book that she found in a dumbwaiter in her parent's crumbling mansion in Brooklyn when she was a teenager called Detection by a writer named Jacque Silette. She is, to put it mildly, an extremely unorthodox investigator. I'm really glad I did.Ĭlaire DeWitt is a private investigator - the world's greatest, in her own words - from California, out of Brooklyn by way of New Orleans and many other stops along the way. I had to get the first book, which turned out to be Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead. The reviewer's description of the detective and of the plot grabbed my attention and I knew I had to have that book.īut since I am an OCD kind of reader, I certainly could not start with the second book in a series. ![]() I was listening to Fresh Air on NPR recently when their book reviewer started talking about Gran's latest book, her second in a series featuring a detective named Claire DeWitt. ![]() ![]() I had that experience earlier this year with Kate Atkinson. It's always such an unexpected pleasure to meet a writer previously unknown to you who is simpatico, someone whose style you really like and appreciate. Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran ![]()
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