city of the dead a claire dewitt mystery

A former teen detective turned “world’s best detective” comes to post-Katrina New Orleans to hunt for a missing D.A.

And it is pretty serious -although it has moments where I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to laugh or not. It’s like someone decided to do a serious take on Dirk Gently and his approach to detection. I have copious notes on this one, and I just can’t decide how to talk about it. I could (and have) spend too much time reading/rereading this. They’re great to dip into and out of -either in order or just randomly. Having these in one handy collection is great -this covers the topics “Young Beings,” “Friendship,” “Adulthood,” and “Recreation” from Pyle’s distinctive perspective. If you haven’t seen the comics floating around online, you’re probably wrong, they’re fairly ubiquitous. If you’ve seen the comics floating around online, you either love ’em or hate ’em. I’m not sure how to talk about this collection. Grab a copy from your local indie bookstore Mystery/Detective Fiction/Crime Fiction/Thriller.Sara Gran (“Dope”) wrote urban noir before turning to mystery, and her descriptions of dead-eyed teen drug dealers in matching white tanks and baggy jeans have the precision of HBO's “The Wire”: “They were as similar as Wall Street brokers in gray flannel suits or white-coated doctors in a hospital or Marines in uniform – and like those other people in uniform, their sameness subdued something in them, made them forget a piece of themselves. Everyone pretends they want their mysteries solved but no one does.” Your clients will never forgive you for telling them the truth. “The first thing you need to know about being a detective,” Constance, who had been a student of Silette, told Claire, “is that no one will ever like you again … Your friends will never relax around you. Set in New Orleans during the months after hurricane Katrina, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, is populated by the missing – from the prosecutor Claire was hired to find, who disappeared days after the levees burst, to Claire's own mentor, who was gunned down years earlier. Despite her almost-psychic abilities of deduction, hard-drinking Claire is a spiritual heir of Philip Marlowe and other loners solving cold-hearted crimes in warm climates.

(Twelve, to be precise, including the initials of her best friend, who disappeared one night when they were teenagers.) Instead of Lisbeth Salandar's computers, though, Claire relies on dreams, the I Ching, and “Detection”by Jacques Silette, a legendary French detective who was never able to solve the biggest mystery of his own life: the disappearance of his young daughter. She’s got the damaged childhood, the antisocial habits and disregard for the law, and the tattoos. 'Millennium' fans looking for a new heroine: Meet Claire DeWitt.

City of the dead a claire dewitt mystery