And she comes back to a city traumatized and destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and its consequences. Coming back to New Orleans, a city she left after Constance’s violent death, is painful to Claire. That’s Claire’s professional foundations.Ĭlaire accepts the case, flies back to New Orleans to find out what happened to Vic Willing and to face her personal demons. And Constance had been tutored by Jacques Silette himself. This book is closer to a sort of Tao Te Ching of crime fiction than to a basic Crime Solving 101. It’s an essay written by a French PI who discusses investigating and solving mysteries. She fell into mystery solving at a young age when she and her girlfriends Tracy and Kelly found a book called Détection by Jacques Silette. Claire grew up in a decrepit townhouse in Brooklyn.
She used to live in New Orleans and her mentor Constance was training her to become a PI. His nephew is not at ease with this version and wants to dig further.Ĭlaire accepts the job and reluctantly comes back to a city she left ten years before.
Everybody assumes that Vic drowned and that his corpse never reappeared.
He vanished during the flood due to the floodwall failure around New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit the region. The City of the Dead by Sara Gran is the first instalment of her crime fiction series featuring her female PI heroin, Claire DeWitt. When the book opens, we’re in 2007, Claire is in California and Leon calls her to ask to come to New Orleans and investigate the disappearance of his uncle, Vic Willing. Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran (2011).
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