city of the dead a claire dewitt mystery

Claire also has deep roots in New Orleans, where she was mentored by Silette’s student the brilliant Constance Darling-until Darling was murdered. A one-time teen detective in Brooklyn, she is a follower of the esoteric French detective Jacques Silette, whose mysterious handbook Détection inspired Claire’s unusual practices. This knock-out start to a bracingly original new series features Claire DeWitt, the world’s greatest PI-at least, that's what she calls herself. DeWitt’s mesmerizing character and memorable voice take your breath away.”- New Orleans Times-Picayune “What would you get if that punkish dragon girl Lisbeth Salander met up with Jim Sallis’s Lew Griffin walking the back streets of New Orleans? Or Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone transformed herself into a tattooed magnolia driving a 4x4? Clare DeWitt, that’s what you’d get. Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J.

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BESTSELLERS in EDUCATION Shop All Education Books.' Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead' is a knockout start to a bracingly original new series. Finding old friends and making new enemies, Claire solves the case, but she's haunted by others gone missing: her best friend and partner in detection, who disappeared from a New York City subway station in 1986, and Jacques Silette's daughter, Belle, stolen from a hotel room and never heard from again. The clues lead her to Andray Fairview, a young man who had nothing to lose before the storm and has less now.

When a respected New Orleans DA goes missing during Hurricane Katrina, she returns to her newly wrecked former city to find out why. Claire also has deep roots in New Orleans, where she was mentored by the brilliant Constance Darling-until Darling was murdered. Claire DeWitt is the world's greatest PI, a one-time teen detective in Brooklyn and follower of the enigmatic French detective Jacques Silette, whose mysterious handbook 'Detection' has led Claire to use the 'I-Ching, ' omens, prophetic dreams, and mind-expanding drugs.

City of the dead a claire dewitt mystery