Has an angry criminal enacted revenge on Vic? Or did he use the storm as a means to disappear? Claire follows the clues, finding old friends and making new enemies foremost among them Andray Fairview, a young gang member who just might hold the key to the mystery. Claire is investigating the disappearance of Vic Willing, a prosecutor known for winning convictions in a homicide plagued city.
The tattooed, pot smoking Claire has just arrived in post Katrina New Orleans, the city she’s avoided since her mentor, Silette s student Constance Darling, was murdered there. But Claire also uses her dreams, omens, and mind expanding herbs to help her solve mysteries, and relies on D tection the only book published by the late, great, and mysterious French detective Jacques Silette. She has brilliant deductive skills and is an ace at discovering evidence.
unlike any other crime novel you’ll read this year’ (Guardian) and ‘the most unusual, intelligent thriller I’ve read for years (Sophie Hannah) – Claire DeWitt and The Bohemian Highway is an extraordinarily powerful and moving mystery novel from a rare talent.Claire DeWitt is not your average private investigator. Just as City of the Dead was acclaimed for its unique heroine and powerful atmosphere – ‘mesmeric. As visions of the past reveal the secrets of the present, Claire begins to understand the words of the enigmatic French detective Jacques Silette: ‘The detective won’t know what he is capable of until he encounters a mystery that pierces his own heart.’ With the help of her new assistant Claude, Claire follows the clues, finding possible leads to Paul’s fate in other cases – a long-ago missing girl and a modern-day miniature horse theft in Marin. But, as Claire knows, nothing is ever simple.
When Paul Casablancas, Claire DeWitt’s musician ex-boyfriend, is found dead in his home in San Francisco’s Mission District, the police are convinced it’s a simple robbery.
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