"Delicious and addictive."--Salon.com
"Reads . . . as if David Lynch directed a Raymond Chandler
novel."--CNN
"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 . .
. 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
Détection 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.
"The 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
"Reminds me why I fell in love with the genre."--Laura Lippman
"I love this book!" -- Sue Grafton
