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.