A review by bunnieslikediamonds
Clare DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway by Sara Gran
5.0
PI Claire DeWitt doesn't work cases, she solves mysteries. Her problem isn't that she's too hard-boiled, it's that she feels "every little thing right down to [her] bones". Still obsessed with the disappearance of her friend and fellow detective Tracy back in the eighties, she suffers another loss as her old boyfriend Paul is killed in what doesn't look much like the robbery it's supposed to.
Following her intuition and the clues she finds in bars, in comic books, in her dreams, she sleuths her way through San Francisco while emptying other people's medicine cabinets. We are also given a flashback to her teenage years when Tracy was still around co-solving mysteries in seedy sex-clubs in Brooklyn. Claire remembers being a teenager in NYC as a "secret world you gained admittance to at fourteen and left at twenty, swearing never to repeat what you'd seen. No one would believe us, anyway". As if these mysteries weren't intriguing enough, Claire also takes on The Case Of The Missing Miniature Horses, which is exactly what it sounds like. Her theory is that the three feet tall, ashamed looking "little fellows were running away to try to get some big boy genes back in the mix, or maybe committing suicide."
It's sad and funny and dark, and I loved it as much as the first book in the series. Sara Gran is a terrific writer, and Claire DeWitt my favorite PI ever.
Following her intuition and the clues she finds in bars, in comic books, in her dreams, she sleuths her way through San Francisco while emptying other people's medicine cabinets. We are also given a flashback to her teenage years when Tracy was still around co-solving mysteries in seedy sex-clubs in Brooklyn. Claire remembers being a teenager in NYC as a "secret world you gained admittance to at fourteen and left at twenty, swearing never to repeat what you'd seen. No one would believe us, anyway". As if these mysteries weren't intriguing enough, Claire also takes on The Case Of The Missing Miniature Horses, which is exactly what it sounds like. Her theory is that the three feet tall, ashamed looking "little fellows were running away to try to get some big boy genes back in the mix, or maybe committing suicide."
It's sad and funny and dark, and I loved it as much as the first book in the series. Sara Gran is a terrific writer, and Claire DeWitt my favorite PI ever.