Now available in paperback, tattooed, pot-smoking, bad ass detective Claire DeWitt’s first adventure, CLAIRE DEWITT AND THE CITY OF THE DEAD by Sara Gran.  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?  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. Read an excerpt. 

Now available in paperback, tattooed, pot-smoking, bad ass detective Claire DeWitt’s first adventure, CLAIRE DEWITT AND THE CITY OF THE DEAD by Sara Gran. 

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? 

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.

Read an excerpt. 

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