She's a fortysomething, chemically adventurous, bed-hopping, gun-toting, hard-boiled, socially dysfunctional, existentially New Age Nancy Drew.

The dark mysticism of Gran's books, however, echoes within their souls.' - 'Claire DeWitt recognizes a clue by the weird chills she gets when she first encounters it, and she makes some of her most important deductions in dreams. Readers will marvel at Gran’s talent.' -Bruce DeSilva, Associated Press 'Most novels, regardless of genre, appeal to readers' minds or to their emotions. The stories are wise, chilling, insightful and reeking with despair-and yet so beautifully written in an original, quirky style that it is difficult to resist them. I have a new favorite female sleuth to add to the list, Claire DeWitt.' -CNN.com 'The Claire DeWitt novels are not so much noir mysteries as stories about the nature of mysteries themselves. I highly recommend her introspective and yes, poetic mystery adventure.' - Maureen Corrigan, NPR 'From Nancy Drew to Miss Marple to Lisbeth Salander, there's a long and distinguished line of famous women in mystery fiction. Claire DeWitt is an unreliable detective unlike any other.' - Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls 'When I began reading a new mystery by Gran and realized I had entered a fresh, fully realized noir world, I felt a rush of private-eye, patriotic pride. 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.

'In her second outing, tattooed cokehead Claire DeWitt puzzles over the murder of an ex-boyfriend.

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