![]() ![]() The snake swallows his own tail and is never satiated. To solve the mystery, Claire uses clues she finds on the street or on billboards, in dreams, or from I Ching hexagrams that are like none I’ve ever read.: ‘That’s where knowledge lives before somebody hunts it, kills it and mounts it in a book.’” “ ‘Never be afraid to learn from the ether,’ Constance told me. Claire also had the chance to work with Constance Darling, on the Silette’s finest students, until Constance was murdered in New Orleans. ![]() It seems that the book often comes to future detectives in unusual ways. ![]() The book came to Claire in an unusual way when she was a child. Vic’s nephew, Leon, just wants closure.Ĭlaire learned the art of detection from a book written by the eccentric Frenchman Jacques Silette. Victor Willing was probably the only uncorrupted DA in the entire parish, but there still is a hint of possible foul play. He just vanished, like so many others, but he was an assistant district attorney with money and connections. She charges a lot of money and she gets results, but her clients usually end up hating her – and that’s not at all surprising.Ĭlaire has come back to New Orleans, a city she knew well, two years after Hurricane Katrina, to find out what happened to her client’s uncle, who disappeared during the storm. Perhaps, like Claire DeWitt’s introduction to detection, it was meant to be.Ĭlaire DeWitt is nearly forty, and the best detective in the world. I hadn’t read anything by Sara Gran until I picked up Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead out of the 50% off bin. ![]()
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