**She lives life fast, hard, and deadly...** Gia Santella no longer cares about the consequences. She copes with her parents' death by drinking, spending, and kicking ass when it's necessary. After an unexpected letter reveals that her loved ones' tragedy was murder, Gia changes her focus to reveng
City of the Dead
โ Scribed by Sara Gran
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 148 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
<div><p>New Orleans, and Vic Willing, Assistant District Attorney for the prosecutors' office, has been missing since Hurricane Katrina hit. Called in from San Francisco is Claire DeWitt, a detective whose expertise and methods derive from some unique sources.</p><p></p><p>What Claire discovers takes us into the heart of the crime-ravaged, deeply wounded city, where those who can afford it live behind fences and those who can't are slain daily on the streets. And it's there she discovers that the only thing worse than an unsolved case, maybe, is a solved one.</p><p><i></i></p><p><i></i>From the acclaimed author of <i>Dope</i> and <i>Come Closer</i>, <i>City of the Dead</i> is the first novel of a detective series unlike any you have read before, one that is sure to inspire a passionate and devoted following. Only a writer with a life as unusual as Sara Gran's -...
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