![]() ![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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