Claire also has deep roots in New Orleans, where she was mentored by Silette’s student the brilliant Constance Darling-until Darling was murdered. A one-time teen detective in Brooklyn, she is a follower of the esoteric French detective Jacques Silette, whose mysterious handbook Détection inspired Claire’s unusual practices. 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. DeWitt’s mesmerizing character and memorable voice take your breath away.”- New Orleans Times-Picayune
“What 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. as if David Lynch directed a Raymond Chandler novel.”-CNN As the adult Claire sorts through deadly puzzles, Silette is a key figure and resource.īy adding a comic-book teen detective and an elegant French investigator to the Claire DeWitt mystery mix, Gran turns “The Infinite Blacktop” into a thriller that is no ordinary, by-the-book crime procedural.“Reads.
Adding to this element, the various crimes being probed are given names as if from a Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys series, such as “The Clue of the Golden Butterfly” or “The Case of the Stolen Seashell.”Ĭlaire is devoted to a French detective, Jacques Silette, who wrote a book, “Detection.” For the teenage Claire, the book is a Rosetta Stone for solving mysteries.
It then moves back and forth among three different times, places and events: 1985-86 Brooklyn, when Claire is a teenager and a friend goes missing 1999 Los Angeles, when an art world death opens a door for her career and 2011 Oakland, when Claire is in the crosshairs of a killer.Ī comic book heroine, the fictional teen detective Cynthia Silverton, oddly becomes a key figure in the multilevel mystery that Claire is out to solve. “The Infinite Blacktop,” Gran’s third Claire DeWitt detective novel, opens in Oakland, California, in 2011 with a fast-paced round of crime-scene fright after an attempt on Claire’s life.
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