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," and "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.
- ISBN13 9780571259175
- Publish Date 2 June 2011
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 31 January 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback
- Pages 300
- Language English