![]() ![]() It’s not unlike her to interview someone and then slip into their bathroom and steal their pain medication, doping up on expired Vicodin and Valium. DeWitt delves into the seedier aspects of these marvelous cities while simultaneously trying to numb herself to the associated emotional trauma of old relationships. ![]() Gran’s series possesses a Philip Marlowe quality with both location and character-her first book took place in New Orleans, while the second is set in San Francisco. In this particular case, DeWitt’s ex-boyfriend, still very dear to her, has been killed, and she intuitively knows it’s not the botched breaking and entering suspected by the police. The Kali Yuga is actually a fairly complex philosophical idea (don’t worry, she explains everything quite clearly). In “Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway,” she’s solving the Case of the Kali Yuga. DeWitt is first introduced in Gran’s 2011 “Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead” in which she solves the Case of the Green Parrot. In Silette’s world, clues come in unexpected places-dreams, tattoos, fingerprints-not those found on a glass or a gun, but the actual whorls and arches of the finger’s print. As teenagers, Claire and two friends found a life-changing book by French detective Jacques Silette, “Détection,” and started practicing his peculiar methods. Miserable, drug-abusing, pill-popping, possibly insane-she’s nevertheless one of the greatest private eyes in the world. Sara Gran has created an amazing character in Claire DeWitt, the detective in her brilliant series. ![]()
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