num_pages: 273
description: This knock-out start to a bracingly original new series features Claire DeWitt the worlds greatest PIat least that's what she calls herself. A one-time teen detective in Brooklyn she is a follower of the esoteric French detective Jacques Silette whose mysterious handbook Dtection inspired Claires unusual practices. Claire also has deep roots in New Orleans where she was mentored by Silettes student the brilliant Constance Darlinguntil Darling was murdered. When a respected DA goes missing she returns to the hurricane-ravaged city to find out why.
language: English
title: Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt