Alex Dueben: Sara Gran: Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead

ALEX DUEBEN: Sara Gran: Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead

Sara Gran has been writing for many years, but it’s her most recent novel “Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead” that has taken her to a new level. The book, just out in paperback, is set in post-Katrina New Orleans and stars Claire DeWitt, a woman who is arguably the world’s greatest detective. This isn’t quite the major accomplishment that many people might think; most people who know Claire tend to hate her or think she’s crazy. A devotee of Jacques Silette, a French detective who...