From the author of City of the Dead, comes a spellbinding mystery
with "the most interesting private eye...since Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth
Salander" (Washington Post).
When Claire DeWitt's ex-boyfriend Paul Casablancas, a musician, is found
dead in his Mission District house, Claire is on the case. Paul's wife
and the police are sure Paul was killed for his valuable collection of
vintage guitars. But Claire, the best detective in the world, has other
ideas. Even as her other cases offer hints to Paul's fate--a missing
girl in the grim East Village of the 1980s and an epidemic of missing
miniature horses in Marin County--Claire knows: the truth is never where
you expect it, and love is the greatest mystery of all.
"A distinctive new American voice in mystery fiction." --NPR's Fresh
Air