Today, Claire is on her way to Las Vegas when she’s almost killed by a homicidal driver. She hunts for the real story behind the death of a washed-up painter ten years earlier, whose successful, widely admired artist girlfriend had died a few months before him. Later, in her twenties, Claire is in Los Angeles trying to get her PI license by taking on a cold case that has stumped the LAPD. That is still the only case Claire ever failed to solve. The three were inseparable-until the day Tracy vanished without a trace. They solved many cases together, in the process witnessing human behavior at its worst. 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 “delicious and addictive” ( Salon) Claire DeWitt series returns with a thrilling, noirish knockout novel that follows three separate narratives starring the self-proclaimed “world’s greatest detective.” As Cara Hoffman, author of Running, says, this “is a hard-boiled, existential masterpiece.”Ĭlaire DeWitt, the hard-living and tough-talking private investigator, has always been something of a detective.
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