![]() ![]() ![]() And she continues to use drugs, not so much as a detection tool but more as a coping mechanism.Īs in the last book, Claire is haunted by her past, especially her friendship with Tracy, a fellow teen detective who disappeared years earlier. The mystery is fairly straightforward, and Claire’s methods involve plenty of questioning and research, some of it conducted by her new assistant, Claude, but she continues to rely on instinct as well. They split up on good terms when Paul met Lydia, also a musician and eventually his wife, but there’s a whiff of “what might have been” about the relationship, the roots of which become more evident by the end of the novel. The victim, a musician named Paul Casablancas, is her ex-boyfriend. In this novel, Claire is still just as messy as in the last book, possibly even messier because she has a personal connection to the crime at the heart of the book. But it was all just intriguing enough to make me want to give the series another try, and I liked this much better! ![]() When I read the first of the Claire DeWitt mysteries by Sara Gran last fall, I had mixed feelings, partly because I found the world of the book and Claire’s methods so strange and the mystery not particularly satisfying. ![]()
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