When a respected New Orleans DA goes missing, Claire DeWitt, one-time teen detective and self-proclaimed world's greatest PI, returns to the hurricane-ravaged city to find out why.
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Volg de onderzoeken van een privédetective van wereldklasse die zich een weg baant door het unieke landschap van New Orleans na Katrina. Elke zaak legt lagen van de complexe geschiedenis van de stad en de levens van haar inwoners bloot. Deze serie combineert meesterlijk het detectivegenre met een rijke, sfeervolle setting. Bereid je voor op een reis vol mysterie, intriges en een onvergetelijke protagonist.
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City of the Dead
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- 10 uur lezen
New Orleans, and Vic Willing, Assistant District Attorney for the prosecutors' office, has been missing since Hurricane Katrina hit. Called in from San Francisco is Claire DeWitt, a detective whose expertise and methods derive from some unique sources. What Claire discovers takes us into the heart of the crime-ravaged, deeply wounded city, where those who can afford it live behind fences and those who can't are slain daily on the streets. And it's there she discovers that the only thing worse than an unsolved case, maybe, is a solved one.
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Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway. Das Ende der Welt, englische Ausgabe
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- 11 uur lezen
When Paul Casablancas, Claire DeWitt's musician ex-boyfriend, is found dead in his home in San Francisco's Mission District, the police are convinced it's a simple robbery. But, as Claire knows, nothing is ever simple. With the help of her new assistant Claude, Claire follows the clues, finding possible leads to Paul's fate in other cases - a long-ago missing girl 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.' Just as City of the Dead was acclaimed for its unique heroine and powerful atmosphere - 'mesmeric . . . unlike any other crime novel you'll read this year' (Guardian) and 'the most unusual, intelligent thriller I've read for years (Sophie Hannah) - Claire DeWitt and The Bohemian Highway is an extraordinarily powerful and moving mystery novel from a rare talent.
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The Infinite Blacktop
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But perhaps the biggest mystery of all lies deeper than that, somewhere out there on the ever rolling highway of life. Set between modern day Las Vegas and LA, The Infinite Blacktop sees 'the best detective in the world' wounded and disorientated, but just about standing.