Books like Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian highway by Sara Gran
Claire DeWitt, a hard‑working woman private investigator, is stunned when her former boyfriend, musician Paul Casablancas, is found dead in his Mission District home. The police label the death a routine robbery, but Claire senses a deeper connection. With the help of her new assistant, Claude, she follows a trail of clues that leads back to her earlier cases – a missing girl from the gritty 1980s East Village and a modern miniature horse theft in Marin. Each piece of evidence points to a larger, tangled conspiracy, compelling Claire to dig further into the city’s underbelly of crime and betrayal.
First publish date: 2013
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Private Investigator
Authors: Sara Gran
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