Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran

Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran

Delicious and addictive. Salon.com
The book is beautifully written in a tight, quirky style that distinguishes Gran as one of the more original writers working today. Bruce DeSilva, Associated Press
One of the genre s most original characters in years, reads . . . like if David Lynch directed a Raymond Chandler novel. CN
Claire DeWitt believes she is the world s greatest PI, even if few agree with her. A one-time teen detective in Brooklyn, she is a follower of the esoteric French detective Jacques Silette, whose mysterious handbook Detection inspired Claire s unusual practices.
Claire also has deep roots in New Orleans, where she was mentored by Silette s student the brilliant Constance Darling until Darling was murdered. When a respected DA goes missing she returns to the hurricane-ravaged city to find out why. Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead is a knockout start to a bracingly original new series.
The hard-living, wisecracking titular detective bounces around post-Katrina New Orleans trying to track down a missing prosecutor in this auspicious debut of a new mystery series and the Big Easy is every bit her equal in sass and flavor. Elle
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 . . . DeWitt s mesmerizing character and memorable voice take your breath away. New Orleans Times-Picayune
Just when I begin to despair that the PI novel has worn out its welcome, a writer with a fresh take reminds me why I fell in love with the genre. Sara Gran has long specialized in shaking up and revitalizing other corners of the genre world, so it s no surprise that she performs this same magic in Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead. Laura Lippman
Sara Gran is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, including Come Closer and Dope.

Sara Gran grew up in Brooklyn and graduated from Tufts University with a B.A. in cultural anthropology in 1993. Her first novel, Saturn's Return to New York, was published in 2001, and is being currently being developed into a film by Domenica Cameron-Scorcese. Her second novel, Come Closer, was published in 2003 to overwhelming critical favor. Praised by Bret Easton Ellis as one of the most precise and graceful pieces of fiction I've read in a long time, it has since been published in eight other countries and has been optioned by The Weinstein Company/ Dimension Films.

Her short stories have appeared in Atlantic Unbound the online home of the Atlantic Monthly, Small Spiral Notebook, Haypenny, and the Land-Grant College Review.

Before making a living as a writer, Ms. Gran worked as a bookseller in New York City. In 2004, she moved to New Orleans; her building, constructed in the 1800s, was among the few not damaged or flooded by Hurricane Katrina. She is currently at work on her fourth novel, set in New Orleans.

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ISBN 13	9780547428499
ISBN 10	0547428499
Title	Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
Author	Sara Gran
Series	Claire Dewitt Novels
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Year published	2011-06-02
Number of pages	273
Prizes	Winner of Macavity Award (Novel) 2012, Short-listed for Shamus Award (First Novel) 2012
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