Claire DeWitt, the hard-living and tough-talking private investigator, has always been something of a detective. As a young girl growing up in Brooklyn, Claire and her two best friends, Tracy and Kelly, fell under the spell of the book Detection by legendary French detective Jacques Silette. The thr
The Infinite Blacktop
β Scribed by Gran, Sara
- Book ID
- 110191845
- Publisher
- Atria Books
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 588 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
**The "delicious and addictive" (Salon) Claire DeWitt series returns with a thrilling noir mystery that follows three separate narratives starring the self-proclaimed "worldβs greatest detective." As Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls raves, these novels are "**cryptic, dreamy, funny and gritty as hell...Claire DeWitt is an unreliable detective unlike any other."
Claire DeWitt, the hard-living and tough-talking private investigator, has always been something of a detective. As a young girl growing up in Brooklyn, Claire and her two best friends, Tracy and Kelly, fell under the spell of the book Detection by legendary French detective Jacques Silette. The three solved many cases together and were inseparableβuntil the day Tracy vanished without a trace. That is still the only case Claire ever failed to solve.
Later, in her twenties, Claire is in Los Angeles trying to get her PI license by taking on a cold case that has stumped...
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
The Infinite Blacktop: A Novel by Sara Gran **The delicious and addictive (*Salon*) Claire DeWitt series returns with a thrilling, noirish knockout of a novel that follows three separate narratives starring the self-proclaimed worlds greatest detective. As Cara Hoffman, author of *Running*, say
Driven off the desert road and left for dead, Claire DeWitt knows that it is someone from her past trying to kill her, she just doesn't know who. Making a break for it from the cops who arrive on the scene, she sets off in search of the truth, or whatever version of it she can find. But perhaps the
**Named one of the best books of 2018 by NPR** **The βdelicious and addictiveβ (_Salon_ ) Claire DeWitt series returns with a thrilling, noirish knockout of a novel that follows three separate narratives starring the self-proclaimed βworldβs greatest detective.β As Cara Hoffman, author of _Running_
Claire DeWitt, the hard-living and tough-talking private investigator, has always been something of a detective. As a young girl growing up in Brooklyn, Claire and her two best friends, Tracy and Kelly, fell under the spell of the book Detection by legendary French detective Jacques Silette. The thr
Driven off the desert road and left for dead, Claire DeWitt has to think fast to avoid the cops who arrive first on the scene. Making a break for it, she sets off in search of the person who tried to kill her, and the reasons why. But perhaps the biggest mystery of all lies deeper than that, somewhe