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Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Grann

March 4, 2020 by Jake Leave a Comment

First of all, has it been almost 15 years since Hurricane Katrina? Feels like yesterday. This book gave me some bad flashbacks and I’ve never lived anywhere near New Orleans. My God, did this country fail the residents of that city. Secondly, I tried reading this one several times. It always ends up on every “You Have To Read This!!!” list of mysteries. Every time I saw it, I kept wanting it to be different from the book I tried before. Again and again I […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Claire DeWitt, claire dewitt and the city of the dead, mystery, New Orleans, Sara Grann

Jake's CBR12 Review No:37 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Claire DeWitt, claire dewitt and the city of the dead, mystery, New Orleans, Sara Grann ·
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You’re gonna love whenever they make this into a tv series

June 21, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

So I have to admit I don’t know that this book (series) is for everyone. There’s a conversation I had or something I read or heard about the difference between a puzzle and a mystery. A puzzle is designed to be solved and the pieces and clues necessary to do so are all available. And so whether you’re going to an Escape the Room or playing a Resident Evil game or reading an Agatha Christie novel, you’re enmeshed in an a puzzle or series of […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: claire dewitt and the city of the dead, sara gran

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:246 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: claire dewitt and the city of the dead, sara gran ·
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