Sara Gran

Amanda es una arquitecta de éxito felizmente casada, quien, un día, empieza a experimentar extraños fenómenos: una propuesta dirigida a su jefe es sustituida por otra llena de insultos obscenos, unos extraños golpeteos no cesan de oirse en su casa, siente la necesidad de volver a fumar y termina quemando "accidentalmente" a su marido con un cigarro y por las noches sueña con una bella mujer de afilados dientes a la orilla de un mar rojo como la sangre. Amanda siente que su vida ha perdido el equilibrio y esta deslizandose por una curva peligrosa, pero no termina de entender por que. No sabe si esta poseida por un demonio o perdiendo la cabeza. En un rincon de su mente no cesa de preguntarse si en realidad no esta disfrutando con todo lo que le sucede y eso la aterroriza aun mas.

Un roman noir énigmatique, drôle et diablement incisif et une détective décidément pas comme les autres… Claire DeWitt, la meilleure détective privée du monde, se réveille dans une ambulance à Oak

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"). "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.

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. From the acclaimed author of "Dope" and "Come Closer", "City of the Dead" is the first novel of a detective series unlike any you have read before, one that is sure to inspire a passionate and devoted following.

Hurrikan Katrina hat New Orleans verwustet. Claire DeWitt soll in diesem Chaos den verschollenen Bezirksanwalt Vic Willing finden. Ist der Anwalt in der Naturkatastrophe umgekommen oder hat er sich einfach davongestohlen? Ein Fall fur die beste Ermittlerin der Welt! Ihr Beruf ist ihre Berufung und ihre Ermittlungsmethoden sind so einzigartig wie genial. Mit Hilfe ihres franzosischen Detektivhandbuchs, ihrer Qigong-Munzen und ihrer drogendurchsetzten Traume wird Claire der Spur des Anwalts folgen

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). "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.

Discover this cult classic, available in the UK for the first time in many years, and step into a world of the dark, bizarre, and unexplained...There was no reason to assume anything out of the ordinary was going on.Strange noises in the apartment.Impulsive behaviour.Intense dreams.It wasn't like everything went wrong all at once.Shoplifting.Fighting.Blackouts.There must be a reasonable explanation for all this.

Driven off the desert road and left for dead, Claire DeWitt knows that it is someone from her past trying to kill her, she just doesnt know who. Making a break for it from the cops who arrive on the scene, she sets off in search of the truth, or whatever version of it she can find. 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 Claire at her lowest point yet, wounded and disorientated, but just about hanging on.Too smart for her own good, too damaged to play by the rules, too crazy for most - have you got what it takes to follow the self-appointed best detective in the world?

A dark, seductive cocktail of a thriller, with a splash of black humour and a twist of horror.Francine Toon, author of Pine There was no reason to assume anything out of the ordinary was going on. Strange noises in the apartment. Impulsive behaviour. Intense dreams.It wasnt like everything went wrong all at once. Shoplifting. Fighting. Blackouts.There must be a reasonable explanation for all this.It will scare the pants off you. It is a perfect horror novel.Paul TremblayA short, sharp shocker . . . Relentlessly creepy.Sunday TimesDeeply scary.The TimesTerrifying.Daily MailSinister.Time Out

When Paul Casablancas, Claire DeWitts musician ex-boyfriend, is found dead in his home in San Franciscos Mission District, the police are convinced its 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 Pauls 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 wont 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 youll read this year (Guardian) and the most unusual , intelligent thriller Ive read for years (Sophie Hannah) -Claire DeWitt and The Bohemian Highway is an extraordinarily powerful and moving mystery novel from a rare talent.

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 cant are slain daily on the streets. And its there she discovers that the only thing worse than an unsolved case, maybe, is a solved one.From the acclaimed author of Dope and Come Closer, City of the Dead is the first novel of a detective series unlike any you have read before, one that is sure to inspire a passionate and devoted following. Only a writer with a life as unusual as Sara Grans - she was in New York City on 9/11/2001 and evacuated from her home in New Orleans on 8/29/2005 - could have written such an extraordinary look at modern-day New Orleans.

DAILY MAIL BOOKS OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE CRIMEFEST eDUNNIT AWARD Deeply atmospheric. . . Combines intrigue, magic and antiquarian bookselling.ObserverA marvellous, magical novelIrish TimesIrresistible. . . A lavish, lush quest novel. LAUREN BEUKESRare book dealer Lily Albrecht has been given a tip-off about The Book of the Most Precious Substance, rumoured to be the most powerful occult book ever written. With some of the worlds wealthiest people willing to pay a fortune for it, she embarks on a journey from New York to New Orleans to Munich to Paris, knowing that it could also help erase the greatest tragedy of her life.But does the book really exist at all, or will Lily lose everything in search of a ghost?What readers are saying:***** Erotic, thrilling, and tense all the way through. There is nothing like this on the shelves. ***** Devilishly delightful. . . THE BEST TWIST ENDING of the year!! ***** Im a bit obsessed with this book. . . its sexy and mysterious and cool, like nothing Ive read before. ***** My only complaint is that I wanted more!

Claire DeWitt y la ciudad de los muertos, de Sara Gran, es una novela negra muy original con un personaje realmente peculiar, oscuro y atractivo: una mujer transgresora y brillante, con una melancólica y arrebatadora vida interior, Claire DeWitt, la mejor detective del mundo. Ha sido galardonada con el prestigioso Deutscher Krimi Preis 2013 en la categoria internacional y con el Macavity Award en 2012. La historia cuenta ademas con la atmosfera seductora de la ciudad de Nueva Orleans, destrozada tras el Katrina, pero cuyos habitantes orgullosos y tenaces intentan levantar a pesar de la magnitud de la tragedia. Sara Gran nacio en Brooklyn en 1971 y ha vivido en Nueva Orleans y Miami. Trabajo como librera y ha tenido una muy buena aceptacion de la critica por dos de sus novelas anteriores. Ha publicado en mas de una docena de paises en quince lenguas.Claire DeWitt es la mejor detective del mundo. Comenzo su carrera cuando era solo una adolescente en Brooklyn y es seguidora del enigmatico detective frances Jacques Silette, cuyo misterioso manual Detection ha inspirado a Claire y la hace formar parte de un elitista club de investigadores que utiliza metodos poco tradicionales como el I Ching, presagios, sueños profeticos, o drogas capaces de abrir la mente a otras realidades. La desaparicion de un respetado y acaudalado ciudadano durante el huracan Katrina lleva a Claire hasta una ciudad destrozada que significa mucho para ella: Nueva Orleans. Tras encontrar a viejos amigos y hacer nuevos enemigos, Claire resuelve el caso, pero otros asuntos del pasado la persiguen y atormentan. Claire DeWitt y la ciudad de los muertos es una novela ironica y original en la que la autora nos presenta a una mujer transgresora y brillante, con una melancolica y arrebatadora vida interior.Comparada con Claire DeWitt, Lisbeth Salander es alguien completamente normal. Sara Gran inaugura un nuevo capitulo de la novela negra. Die ZeitUna novela extremadamente original, diferente, divertida e ironica, que cautiva por la accion y por un escenario sugestivo. ¡Gran potencial para una serie! New York Journal of Books