A review by mattbowes
Clare DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway by Sara Gran

5.0

Claire DeWitt is currently the greatest detective in the world, a rank she achieved after the death of her mentor Constance Starling. After the events of The Case of the Green Parrot, related to us in book form by Sara Gran as Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, Claire has left New Orleans and returned to San Francisco. It doesn’t take long, though, for trouble to rear its ugly head once again, as her old flame, Paul Casablancas, turns up dead in what appears to be a burglary of his house. Paul was the one Claire never really got over, and the death hits her doubly hard as she introduced him to his future wife. No one really hires Claire to look into this case, but she does it anyway, adding The Case of the Kali Yuga to her ongoing workload (alongside the decidedly lower-stakes Case of the Missing Miniature Horses).

Interspersed with Claire’s return into the Bay Area rock music world, we also get the story of young Claire and her best friend Tracy solving another mystery in post-punk ’80s New York City, The Case of the End of the World. A young party girl has gone missing in the sleazy underworld of the East Village, and only these two plucky teenagers stand between her and total oblivion.

Check out the rest of my review at This Nerding Life: http://thisnerdinglife.com/2015/04/07/review-claire-dewitt-and-the-bohemian-highway-by-sara-gran-2013/