![]() ![]() ![]() In the first, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, she’s in post-Katrina New Orleans, trying to solve the Case of the Green Parrot, the murder of a socialite district attorney. ![]() In each of Gran’s books DeWitt is living in a different city, and they all flash back to her childhood in Brooklyn. I was getting a reputation as a good detective but impossible to deal with. Sometimes I solved crimes, helping out other detectives when they needed it, going undercover where they couldn’t. I went from place to place, earning money when it was easy and acquiring it by other means when it wasn’t. “Since I’d left Brooklyn I’d been traveling around the country, taking it in a little bit at a time. In recounting her history, DeWitt communicates both her skill and her penchant for getting into trouble: ![]() Prone to excessive drinking, cocaine use, and popping pills (which she steals from everyone whose medicine cabinet she has access to), DeWitt is a brilliant fuckup, an extraordinary detective with a long menu of issues. As a character, DeWitt is alternately full of bluster and a complete mess. In the primary case in the book, The Case of the Infinite Blacktop, DeWitt searches for the person who tried to kill her in a car accident in Oakland, California. In the third of Gran’s Claire DeWitt books, The Infinite Blacktop, we see DeWitt delve deeper into mysteries she’s been trying to solve for years, as well as taking on a couple of new cases. ![]()
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