Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Claire DeWitt Series #1)

Claire DeWitt is not your average private investigator. She has brilliant skills of deduction and is an ace at discovering evidence. But Claire also uses her dreams, omens, and mind-expanding herbs to help her solve mysteries, and relies on Detection-the only book published by the great and mysterious French detective Jacques Silette before his death.The tattooed, pot-smoking Claire has just arrived in post-Katrina New Orleans, the city she's avoided since her mentor, Silette's student Consta…