Sara Gran's Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
I've been meaning to read this pretty much since it came out, but just wasn't sure I was up for a mystery involving Hurrican Katrina and post-Katrina New Orleans, even though my friend Andy kept telling me to read it. Anyway, I'm glad I finally did, because it was excellent. Claire DeWitt is easily the most unconventional detective I've ever read about--she has a weird mystical type of detection going on, which was really interesting to read about, and was definitely not predictable. Gran does a great job evoking post-Katrina New Orleans, which means this book is often dark and depressing, but doesn't make it any less great. A/A-.
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