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And we solve them anyway, knowing we are solving both everything and nothing. You won’t get any spoilers from me! I’ll just end with this quote from Silette: She lets her assistant Claude know finding Andray is her next case -Īnd then she realizes it’s not her paranoia: a Lincoln is following her through Oakland… She then heads out of town in search of Andray (a character from the first novel) who she believes is destined to become another Silette detective, after he fails to show up in Las Vegas to meet a friend. The PI has located the only known remaining copies of the Cynthia Silverton books from her childhood and mails a letter to the address in an ad for a detective home study course. So basically this book was a mystery within several other mysteries where we’re building a case for all but solving a few at a time.Ĭlaire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway ends with a frustrating cliffhanger. On a self destructive path to destiny, Claire manages to solve the case of Paul’s murder while leaving many unanswered questions: how is such a small amount of people finding the Silette novel Detection and then finding each other? How did Claire and her friends Kelly and Tracy have copies of the Cynthia Silverton mysteries in their childhood after we find out how extremely limited the copies were? What happened to Tracy? Once again Claire uses copious amounts of drugs, mystical dreams ( hallucinations perhaps?), and information from some strange characters to lead her to the truth. Tracy’s disappearance was discussed at length in the first novel and we get quite a bit of new information through flashbacks in this book. Working this personal case has Claire relying heavily on drugs ( again) and more haunted than ever by another unsolved personal case: the disappearance of her best friend Tracy when they were teenagers. As a follower of master PI Jacques Silette and his book Detection, she knows that nothing is ever as simple as it seems and there are no coincidences, only fate. She looks back on her relationship with Paul and takes a closer look at his marriage and his music with help from old friends and her new assistant Claude.Ĭlaire has a habit of reminiscing on old cases that lead her to clues in present cases. The killer took several guitars and locked the door from the inside when leaving the home.Īfter learning the door was locked from the inside, Claire believes the murder was much more personal than a robbery.

Her ex-boyfriend Paul Casablancas, a well known local musician, is found dead in his home and police believe he was shot after surprising an intruder during a robbery in progress. Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway (Claire DeWitt #2) by Sara GranĬlaire DeWitt, the world’s greatest detective, returns to California after solving a case in New Orleans (Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, read my review here).