Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
Format: Book
Description: pages ; cm.
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.
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.
Subjects:
Women private investigators -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Public prosecutors -- Fiction.
Gang members -- Fiction.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects -- Fiction.
New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.
Women private investigators -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Public prosecutors -- Fiction.
Gang members -- Fiction.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects -- Fiction.
New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780547428499
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