Claire DeWitt is an unreliable detective unlike any other." - Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls "From Nancy Drew to Miss Marple to Lisbeth Salander, there's a long and distinguished line of famous women in mystery fiction. A " ' Entertainment Weekly "This is a heroine who is so flawed - and so achingly desperate to be otherwise - that you can't help but relate.Claire's quest to avenge Paul is compelling, but her insistence on uncovering the mystery of her own self-destruction is what makes this book not just a compelling mystery, but a novel." - "The high-stepping, coke-snorting, Zen-loving heroine of Sara Gran's new novel is something of a mess, but she's also the most interesting private eye I've encountered since Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander.She mostly follows her intuition, along with the precepts laid down by the great (and fictional) French detective Jacques Silette, who said things like, 'Solutions wait for you, trembling, pulling you to them, calling your name, even if you cannot hear.'" 'Washington Post '"If Haruki Murakami wrote The Wire, it would come out something like Sara Gran cryptic, dreamy, funny and gritty as hell. There's absolutely nothing predictable about either the multilayered investigation'cloaked in references to Indian scriptures, Thomas Merton, and cheesy 1980s TV mysteries'or DeWitt herself, who charms despite her fraying life. Highly recommended."-Library Journal, STARRED review, "In her second outing, tattooed cokehead Claire DeWitt puzzles over the murder of an ex-boyfriend. Remarkably, Gran keeps her tortured detective focused throughout, ensuring a satisfying read. VERDICT Gran's (Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead) detective searches for truth, not necessarily justice, and philosophical tidbits scattered throughout give the storyline an otherworldly tone. Claire's increasing reliance on cocaine as the case escalates worries both her friends and the readers, but she never loses track of her cases, leading to a stunning conclusion.
Through Claire's flashbacks and dreams, readers are transported into her intuitive detecting methods-an exhausting process unique to this fine detective. Two cases separated by 25 years-the old one in Claire's native Brooklyn and the current in San Francisco-define Gran's second series entry.
She finds a clue ("trust only the clues," says her detective mentor, Jacques Silette) that helps her trace Paul's final steps that ultimately led to his death. "Claire's old love, Paul Casablancas, is murdered in an apparent robbery gone bad, opening a floodgate of emotions for her.
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