Hailed as "delicious and addictive" ("Salon"), and a book "not to be missed" ("Christian Science Monitor"), "Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead" was universally praised as 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, 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 hurricane as a means to disappear? In the vein of Laura Lippman"s Tess Monaghan and Sue Grafton"s Kinsey Millhone, "Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead" introduces a heroine who will surely delight readers for years to come.
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