Claire Dewitt and the City of the Dead

Hailed as “delicious and addictive” (Salon), and a book “not to be missed” (Christian Science Monitor), Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead was universally praised as a knockout start to a bracingly original new series.
   The tattooed, pot-smoking Claire has just arrived in post-Katrina New Orleans, the city she’s avoided since her mentor, 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 hurricane as a means to disappear? In the vein of Laura Lippman’s Tess Monaghan and Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead introduces a heroine who will surely delight readers for years to come.