The Infinite Blacktop (Unabridged)
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2.7 • 6 Ratings
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
Named one of the best books of 2018 by NPR
The “delicious and addictive” (Salon) Claire DeWitt series returns with a thrilling, noirish knockout of a novel that follows three separate narratives starring the self-proclaimed “world’s greatest detective.” As Cara Hoffman, author of Running, says, this “is a hard-boiled, existential masterpiece.”
Claire DeWitt, the world’s best private detective, wakes up one dark night in an ambulance in Oakland: someone has just tried to murder her. But she’s not dead. Not yet.
More sure of herself than of the police, Claire follows the clues on a 52-hour odyssey through shimmering Las Vegas and the shabby surrounding desert to find out who wants her dead. But in order to save herself, Claire will have to revisit her own complicated past as she navigates the present: a past of childhood obsessions, rival detectives, lost friends, and mysteries mostly—but not always—solved.
Three intertwining stories illuminate three eras of Claire’s life: her early years as an ambitious girl detective in Brooklyn (before it was gentrified), which ended when her best friend and partner in crime-solving disappeared; a case of an unexplained death in the art world of late-1990s Los Angeles, when, devastated by the demise of her mentor in New Orleans, Claire was forced to start again; and her current quest to save her own life from a determined assassin.
As the connections between the stories come into focus, the truth becomes clear. But Claire, battered and bruised, will never quit her search for the answer to the biggest mystery of all: how can anyone survive in a world so clearly designed to break our hearts?
Customer Reviews
Different Narrator
Before you purchase, listen to the preview. For this third book there is a new narrator and she is awful!!!! The first two books were narrated by CAROL MONDA. This third book is narrated by MADELEINE MABY.
I loved the first two books and was looking forward to the third one. The narrator for the third book (The Infinite Blacktop) is different, way different!!!
The narrator (Madeleine Maby) for this 3rd book (The Infinite Blacktop) kills the vibe and personality of Claire DeWitt as well as the rest of the story. None of the quirkiness or personality of DeWitt comes through in her voice. Plus, she mispronounces names.
AHHHHH, what a difference a narrator can make!!!! A friend and I have been driving around during the COVID pandemic and listening to audiobooks. We made it only to the middle of chapter 4. We both agreed that the narrator was terrible and elected to not continue the book. With this narrator we were never able to get into the story.
When I purchased this 3rd book, I just assumed the narrator would be the same for this book given that for a series the narrator usually stays the same. They should give a heads up when there is a different narrator for a series.
I don’t know if I can get a refund or not. I will see if that is a possibilty.
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