![]() ![]() What’s clever about Gran’s writing is that the humour is not always where you expect it. If it sounds a little whimsical, it’s really not. The Bohemian Highway switches between contemporary San Francisco and Brooklyn during DeWitt’s youth in the 80s, when she was an aspiring Nancy Drew sending off for fingerprint sets advertised in the back of detective comics. ![]() It’s also a thoughtful, imaginative detective novel with a wit and rhythm that fans of Raymond Chandler will admire. The second novel in Sara Gran’s San Francisco crime series is a strange, heady narrative that draws you into a noirish netherworld of sex, drugs and rock n roll. ![]() It’s an audacious move putting the name of your detective in the title of a novel, but Claire DeWitt is a big enough character to justify such confidence. ![]()
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