I’m still going back and forth on whether this should be a 4 or 3 star. Maybe I’ll get to the bottom of that conundrum by the time I finish this review. I warn you, there will be spoilerish content here as I work through my feelings on this book, so if you are sensitive to such things read no further. It wasn’t until I preordered this book that I discovered this is the second in a planned trilogy of sorts, which began with last […]

“Happiness is the temporary result of denying the knowledge one already has.” Yeesh. This book, the second featuring Claire DeWitt, just kicked me in the gut, turned me inside out. And no, that’s not the Percocet talking. I was taken in by Claire and her world in the first novel, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead. It was offbeat and witty and hard. I though about the characters and the place when I wasn’t reading. I was hooked. But I still wasn’t prepared […]

“Clues are everywhere. But only some can see.” I am completely in love with Claire DeWitt. She’s prickly, she’s often unpleasant and her own worst enemy. She’s razor-sharp, tenacious and funny as hell. I am preparing to jump into the second book, but with some trepidation. While I’ve read that Ms. Gran was at work on a third Claire DeWitt mystery, there is no release date. The wait could be agonizing! Oh, well. Let’s get to this story. Claire is a well-known detective in certain circles. […]