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The eagerly awaited second book in the buzzed-about Claire DeWitt mystery series,featuring one of the genres most original characters in years . . . as if David Lynch directed a Raymond Chandler novel. CNN When Paul Casablancas, Claire DeWitts musician ex-boyfriend, is found dead in his Mission District home, the police are convinced its a simple robbery. But Claire knows nothing is ever simple.With the help of her new assistant, Claude, Claire follows the clues, finding hints to Pauls fate in her other casesespecially that of a missing girl in the gritty 1980s East Village and a modern-day miniature horse theft in Marin. As visions of the past reveal the secrets of the present, Claire begins to understand the words of the enigmatic French detective Jacques Silette The detective wont know what he is capable of until he encounters a mystery that pierces his own heart.
About the Author
Sara Gran is the author of Saturn's Return to New York (2001) , Come Closer (2003) , Dope (2006) , and the forthcoming Claire DeWitt & The City of the Dead (2011) , the first in a series of novels featuring private eye Claire DeWitt. Her work has been published in over a dozen countries and as many languages. Her books have been optioned for film by Miramax, Dimension, and Paramount. Born in Brooklyn in 1971, Ms. Gran lived in New York City until 2004. Since then she has traveled widely and lived throughout the US including Miami and New Orleans. She now resides in the state of California. Before making a living as a writer, Ms. Gran had many jobs, primarily with books, working at Manhattan bookstores like Shakespeare & Co, The Strand, and Housing Works, and selling used & rare books on her own.
