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The Infinite Blacktop: A Claire DeWitt Novel Paperback – June 6, 2019

by Sara Gran (Author)
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Driven off the desert road and left for dead, Claire DeWitt has to think fast to avoid the cops who arrive first on the scene. Making a break for it, she sets off in search of the person who tried to kill her, and the reasons why. But perhaps the biggest mystery of all lies deeper than that, somewhere out there on the ever rolling highway of life.

Set between modern day Las Vegas and LA, The Infinite Blacktop sees ''the best detective in the world'' wounded and disorientated, but just about standing.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Faber & Faber; Main edition (June 6, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0571336612
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0571336616
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.84 x 0.75 x 7.64 inches
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Sara Gran is the author of The Book of The Most Precious Substance. Previous work includes Saturn's Return to New York, Come Closer, Dope, Marigold, and the Claire DeWitt series. She is the founder of small press Dreamland Books and writes for television and film.

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  • Ozguy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling and unique character who happens to be the worlds best detective.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2021
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    Sara’s created something special with the Claire DeWitt series. While each book can be read as stand alone, I feel the trilogy read in order packs a punch with the final book having Claire discover who is trying to kill her and why. Long term mysteries are resolved as new ones emerge.

    Claire herself, from her start as a teen detective in occasional flashbacks is now in middle age and full of bad habits.

    The central question is what is the cost of being the worlds best detective, and the answer it appears, is everything.

    I really hope Sara writes another book in the series!
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  • Nicole Bell
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excited this book is available in paperback!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2019
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    LOVE the Claire DeWitt series
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  • col2910
    5.0 out of 5 stars Unusual, addictive, engrossing and a little bit puzzling
    Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2018
    Complicated, enthralling and a little bit head-scratching at the finale, which far from marring my enjoyment of this book, just has me thinking about it at odd moments ever since I've finished it. I'm tempted to re-read the last dozen or so pages to try and enlighten myself, or maybe not, maybe it will come to me at an odd moment of reflection.

    The Infinite Blacktop is the third Claire DeWitt series book, but worked well enough for me on its own. I do have the first on the shelves somewhere (City of the Dead) which I'll get to one day, which will then give a better indication of whether to pony up for the second.

    Claire is a PI and the self proclaimed best detective in the world and someone just tried to kill her with a car. We endeavour to discover who and why. We get the who in the end and Claire gets the why, me I'm still figuring it all out.

    The journey to that point is bloody marvellous though, as several other cases and timelines are woven into the mystery. There's a Los Angeles cold case in the late 90s - the death of an artist which Claire works to gain the hours for her Californian PI license and there is the more personal mystery of the disappearance of one of Claire's teenage friends, back in New York when they were young adolescents sucked into the world of solving mysteries because of the teenage detective Cynthia Silverton magazine. Best friend, Tracy vanished without a trace and Claire's world has never been quite the same since.

    Along the way, we discover the rivalries in the world of detection and the differing schools of approach to solving a mystery. Jacques Silette's great book Detection, discovered in the attic of her parent's house offering DeWitt her inspiration and direction. There's also the labelling of all the cases she has involvement in - The Case of the Curse of the White Pearl of the Tomb of the Lost Golden Lotus, The Case of Broken Lily etc etc. I'm still trying to recall what the labelling reminds me of.

    DeWitt is an incredible character and a contradiction - on the surface, she's tough, capable, violent, irrational, destructive, intelligent; whilst at the same time lonely, vulnerable, afraid. We keenly feel her ongoing grief at the loss of her mentor,Constance Darling best friend and maybe lover. She's compelling reading. And I'm not going to disagree, she may be the best detective in the world.

    Lots to enjoy here, the landscape of LA - in the late 90s and our present day Oakland (ok 2011); the flip-flopping timelines and tales. I was so totally immersed in the investigation into the death of the LA artist that I was kind of sad to be dragged back to Oakland and another spell trying to get closer to the present day mystery of who was trying to kill our heroine. Then in turn I was mesmerised by the Las Vegas scenes and the unravelling of the origins of the Cynthia Magazine, a key factor in two of our puzzles.

    Quirky, off-beat, unusual and enthralling. I liked this a lot more than I kind of expected to.

    4.5 from 5

    Sara Gran has published five previous novels - three standalones including Come Closer and Dope and three Claire DeWitt mysteries. She's an author I'll definitely read more from in the future.

    Read in October, 2018
    Published - 2018
    Page count - 220
    Source - Net Galley early reviewer's site
    Format - ePub file read on laptop.
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  • whatithinkis
    1.0 out of 5 stars Perkily self-referential
    Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2022
    Perky does not do it for me. Cute does not do it for me. Annoying prompts me to put down the book and the author forever.
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  • Huggermugger
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 20, 2024
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    Sara Gran is an amazing writer.
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  • Mig Bardsley
    4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyed this a lot
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 17, 2019
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    But not as much as The City of the Dead which was simply extraordinary. But it was still pretty damn good - definitely not your average detective novel. The slightly strange but oddly compelling character of Claire De Witt , the remarkably sharp and tight writing and the absolute refusal of either Claire or the plot to go where they are told or do what they might be expected to, ever, the strange backstory of Claire's childhood, mentor and the odd and slightly scary book by a famous detective that lurks in her background all added up to a continuous feast of things I didn't see coming.
    Do read it if you don't want cliche and the same old stuff. Or read it anyway. It's good.
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  • Robin Walker
    5.0 out of 5 stars Unusual, complec
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 3, 2018
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    I didn't want to care about the main character but I really, really did. And what clever plotting. It's a while since I've found a book as absorbing and convincing. Unique.
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  • Steve
    3.0 out of 5 stars Convoluted
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 26, 2018
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    Far too complicated without any need to be complicated. A rambling, self-indulgent story that I couldn't wait to finish. Disappointing.
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  • Phil
    5.0 out of 5 stars ahhh
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 16, 2019
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    can you believe? can you believe that this book actually exists and this character exists and this author exists? reading this felt like being given the most amazing secret
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