![]() ![]() ![]() She’s conflicted, confused, the perfect guide through a ruined world of puzzles. Claire DeWitt is a detective, sure, but she’s also into drugs and Chinese medicine and mysticism. ![]() I typically like my crime novels gritty, less about detection and more about character Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead manages to appease us all: the series-wanters, the character-seekers, and mystery-hounds. In addition to reinvigorating the idea of what a series could be, Gran also discarded the mold of the private detective novel, shaping her clay into something new. If it wasn’t Hoke Moseley, I wasn’t sure I wanted anything to do with it. I won’t say I’d written off all series, but I’d certainly soured on some (even ones I’d once found appealing) and on the concept as a whole. I came to that book expecting good things because I liked all of Sara Gran’s previous work ( Dope, Come Closer, Saturn’s Return to New York), but - as someone who had grown tired of crime writers being pushed to create a series character - I was also ambivalent. WE FIRST MET PRIVATE detective Claire DeWitt in 2011’s Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |