<div>&ldquo;Delicious and addictive.&rdquo;&mdash;Salon.com &ldquo;Reads . . . as if David Lynch directed a Raymond Chandler novel.&rdquo;&mdash;CNN &ldquo;What would you get if that punkish dragon girl Lisbeth Salander met up with Jim Sallis&rsquo;s Lew Griffin walking the back streets of New Orleans? Or Sue Grafton&rsquo;s Kinsey Millhone transformed herself into a tattooed magnolia driving a 4x4? Clare DeWitt, that&rsquo;s what you&rsquo;d get . . . DeWitt&rsquo;s mesmerizing character and memorable voice take your breath away.&rdquo;&mdash;New Orleans Times-Picayune This knock-out start to a bracingly original new series features Claire DeWitt, the world&rsquo;s greatest PI&mdash;at least, that&#39;s what she calls herself. A one-time teen detective in Brooklyn, she is a follower of the esoteric French detective Jacques Silette, whose mysterious handbook D&eacute;tection inspired Claire&rsquo;s unusual practices. Claire also has deep roots in New Orleans, where she was mentored by Silette&rsquo;s student the brilliant Constance Darling&mdash;until Darling was murdered. When a respected DA goes missing she returns to the hurricane-ravaged city to find out why. &ldquo;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&mdash;and the Big Easy is every bit her equal in sass and flavor.&rdquo;&mdash;Elle &ldquo;Reminds me why I fell in love with the genre.&rdquo;&mdash;Laura Lippman &quot;I love this book!&quot; -- Sue Grafton </div>

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Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead

<div>From the author of City of the Dead, comes a spellbinding mystery with "the most interesting private eye...since Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander" (Washington Post). When Claire DeWitt’s ex-boyfriend Paul Casablancas, a musician, is found dead in his Mission District house, Claire is on the case. Paul's wife and the police are sure Paul was killed for his valuable collection of vintage guitars. But Claire, the best detective in the world, has other ideas. Even as her other cases offer hints to Paul’s fate—a missing girl in the grim East Village of the 1980s and an epidemic of missing miniature horses in Marin County-–Claire knows: the truth is never where you expect it, and love is the greatest mystery of all. "A distinctive new American voice in mystery fiction." —NPR’s Fresh Air</div>

Claire Dewitt And The Bohemian Highway

<div>“A completely original hybrid of mystery, thriller, contemporary noir, dark comedy and postmodern meditation about what it means to be a detective.” —The New York Times An NPR Best Book Claire DeWitt, the self-proclaimed world’s best private detective, wakes up one dark night in an ambulance in Oakland: someone has just tried to murder her. But she’s not dead. Not yet. More sure of herself than of the police, Claire follows the clues on a 52-hour odyssey through shimmering Las Vegas and the shabby surrounding desert to find out who wants her dead. But in order to save herself, Claire will have to revisit her own complicated past of childhood obsessions, rival detectives, lost friends, and mysteries mostly—but not always—solved. Three intertwining stories illuminate three eras of Claire’s life. As the connections between the stories come into focus, the truth becomes clear. But Claire will never quit her search for the answer to the biggest mystery of all: how can anyone survive in a world so clearly designed to break our hearts? “Claire DeWitt is one part Auguste Dupin, one part Jack Kerouac-type “Dharma Bum” and allover nasty woman on a mission.” —Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post “There’s a fascinating echo in these pages of classic LA noir detective fiction from the age of Hammett and Chandler . . . you’ll be charmed by this eccentric, enticingly artful mystery.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Bold and stunning . . . Gran takes readers on an unforgettable journey.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “A hard-boiled, existential masterpiece.” —Cara Hoffman, author of Running and So Much Pretty </div>

The Infinite Blacktop

<div>From the author of the Claire DeWitt series: This &ldquo;witty and poignant&rdquo; novel of a woman moving on to a new stage of life, as her mother does the same (Rocky Mountain News). Mary Forrest is in her late twenties and comes from a literary family&mdash;her widowed mother still runs a prominent journal and shows up at Manhattan book parties packed with writers and intellectuals. Decades ago, Evelyn Forrest faced the kind of harassment that would make headlines in later times, but now her daughter works in publishing in an era that&rsquo;s a little easier for women. Yet, young Mary is about to face some challenges of her own. Evelyn&rsquo;s memory has been giving her problems&mdash;like &ldquo;going home&rdquo; to the place on Twelfth Street where she hasn&rsquo;t lived since 1977. As Mary tries to support her mother, she struggles with personal relationships, and discovers that a coworker is brazenly trying to steal her job. At an astrological reading that she got as a birthday gift, a psychic explained that this is Mary&rsquo;s Saturn Return year, her twenty-ninth; the year that the planet Saturn returns to exact spot it was in when she was born. It presages a time of change, and the last painful struggle before finally entering genuine adulthood. So far, it appears to be an accurate prediction . . . </div>

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Saturn's Return to New York

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