€œDelicious and addictive.€€"Salon.com

€œReads . . . as if David Lynch directed a Raymond Chandler novel.€€"CNN
 

€œWhat would you get if that punkish dragon girl Lisbeth Salander met up with Jim Sallis€s Lew Griffin walking the back streets of New Orleans? Or Sue Grafton€s Kinsey Millhone transformed herself into a tattooed magnolia driving a 4x4? Clare DeWitt, that€s what you€d get . . . DeWitt€s mesmerizing character and memorable voice take your breath away.€€"New Orleans Times-Picayune

This knock-out start to a bracingly original new series features Claire DeWitt, the world€s greatest PI€"at 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 D©tection inspired Claire€s unusual practices. Claire also has deep roots in New Orleans, where she was mentored by Silette€s student the brilliant Constance Darling€"until Darling was murdered. When a respected DA goes missing she returns to the hurricane-ravaged city to find out why.

€œThe hard-living, wisecracking titular detective bounces around post-Katrina New Orleans trying to track down a missing prosecutor in this auspicious debut of a new mystery series€"and the Big Easy is every bit her equal in sass and flavor.€€"Elle

€œReminds me why I fell in love with the genre.€€"Laura Lippman