license application, and discover the true mystery. We also go back in time to follow the case that was supposed to complete her California P.I. In this book, Claire is solving the mystery of who is trying to kill her. Richter's breaks were written in the deep wrinkles in his skin, in his tired posture, in his large, sagging hands.' It's time breaking you-your will, your heart, your beliefs. Claire was fighting bitterness and despair, but she's always done that. As always, Claire seemed to speak to my soul, but this time, we were both older, both more mature. I was coming home from a ten-day vacation and had a lot to process. Much like City of the Dead, it spoke to me in complex ways that seemed to contain life lessons.

Oh, the book? The book is, quite possibly, the I-Ching, a bound Tarot deck, an astrological guide, or a fortune cookie. I wrote it down, forgot about it, and when it finally hit NetGalley, Dan was kind enough to let me know. There is too much complication in Claire to be anything but semi-autobiographal, I thought.Īnd then rumors started to leak in early 2018 about a new Claire book. I began to despair that much like Claire, Gran had immersed herself in drugs and mystery, and for the first time in my life, began to fret about an author. She lost her domain name, apparently, and started a new site, but much like the first, updated it about once a year. She was on some social media for a while, then briefly, Twitter, and then she dropped off the face of the earth as far as the internet knew. But the only unhappy residents whose opinions I had to care about were the police.' 'San Fransisco didn't throw open her arms and welcome me to her bosom. She, like Claire, doesn't appear to care if anyone knows who she is. Claire left a very significant mystery unsolved, and so I scouted everywhere for signs of Gran's activity. Since we parted ways with Claire way back in 2013 in Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway, Sara Gran started writing for Southland, apparently as one of the main writers in 2012 and 13.

Yet these were two very different, powerful reads. But wait, if I rate this book that high, what does that make Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead? Fucking awesome, of course, but I rated that five stars as well.

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