A Mysterious Review of Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway by Sara Gran. A Claire DeWitt Mystery.
Review summary: The narrative of this novel is comprised of a random stream of (often drug-induced) consciousness on the part of the titular character. There is some measure of continuity to the story, but it's tenuous. It's oddly compelling in a way, but ultimately disappointing because the murder mystery itself is so thinly developed and plotted. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway
Sara Gran
A Claire DeWitt Mystery
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (June 2013)
Publisher synopsis: When Paul Casablancas, Claire DeWitt's musician ex-boyfriend, is found dead in his Mission District home, the police are convinced it's a simple robbery. But Claire knows nothing is ever simple.
With the help of her new assistant, Claude, Claire follows the clues, finding hints to Paul's fate in her other cases — especially that of a missing girl in the gritty 1980s East Village and a modern-day miniature horse theft in Marin. As visions of the past reveal the secrets of the present, Claire begins to understand the words of the enigmatic French detective Jacques Silette: "The detective won't know what he is capable of until he encounters a mystery that pierces his own heart." And love, in all its forms, is the greatest mystery of all — at least to the world's greatest PI.
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