City of the dead - Sara Gran

New
Orleans, and Vic Willing, Assistant District Attorney for the
prosecutors' office, has been missing since Hurricane Katrina hit.
Called in from San Francisco is Claire DeWitt, a detective whose
expertise and methods derive from some unique sources.

What
Claire discovers takes us into the heart of the crime-ravaged, deeply
wounded city, where those who can afford it live behind fences and those
who can't are slain daily on the streets. And it's there she discovers
that the only thing worse than an unsolved case, maybe, is a solved one.

From the acclaimed author of Dope and Come Closer, City of the Dead
is the first novel of a detective series unlike any you have read
before, one that is sure to inspire a passionate and devoted following.