Claire DeWitt And The Bohemian Highway

"All those Vikings who’ve been taking over mystery fiction can now go jump in a fjord! Brooklyn-born author, Sara Gran, has reintroduced a distinctive American voice to the mystery in the guise of her 40-ish, bad-girl detective, Claire DeWitt. In this second outing, DeWitt’s investigations into the murder of an old boyfriend take her from the elite Bohemian Grove Club in California to New York’s Lower East Side. Along the way, her narration is infused with tough poetry. About being a teenager, Claire says: “It was a secret world you gained admittance to at fourteen and left at twenty, swearing never to repeat what you’d seen.” Wise readers will zip their lips and stay close to Claire."