There didn’t really seem to be a huge amount of detective work either, certainly nothing which stood out in terms of justifying Clare’s claim to be the “best detective in the world”. It was rather too complicated a plot for all this jumping around and I found myself getting very confused as to which timeframe we were in and which characters belonged to which storyline. I also found the book quite disjointed because of the switches between storylines and timeframes. Clare is such an odd, weird, unlikeable and eccentric detective that she didn’t come over as a believable character – not to me anyway. On the whole it is also very readable and there is a complex storyline with a mystery to solve. It is also quirky, creative, unusual and inventive. That being said, I suspect additional background information may have enhanced my enjoyment of the book. Although I had not read any others from the Clare deWitt series, it worked perfectly well as a stand-alone novel. These three separate plot strands converge as the book progresses.įirst of all, the good news. Clare goes underground to try and find the homicidal car driver and her quest leads her back to crimes that she solved in both her teenage years and at the start of her life as a PI. She is feisty, eccentric and extremely unpopular which causes a bit of a problem when it appears that somebody is trying to kill her as there are plenty of potential candidates. Claire DeWitt is the self-appointed “World’s Greatest Detective” who never, ever fails to solve a case.
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