The third of Sara Gran’s unique and acclaimed Claire DeWitt books, and a great introduction to her mesmeric series.

Driven off the desert road and left for dead, Claire DeWitt knows that it is someone from her past trying to kill her, she just doesn’t know who. Making a break for it from the cops who arrive on the scene, she sets off in search of the truth, or whatever version of it she can find. 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 Claire at her lowest point yet, wounded and disorientated, but just about hanging on.

Too smart for her own good, too damaged to play by the rules, too crazy for most – have you got what it takes to follow the self-appointed ‘best detective in the world’?

‘Gran’s heady mix of classic noir, prodigious alcohol and narcotic ingestion and mystical self-exploration has flavours of Murakami, the Pynchon of Inherent Vice and Altman’s The Long Goodbye, but it is very much her own distinctive blend, and … it never dwindles into pastiche or post-modern trickery. As with all great crime fiction, these books rely on the voice of their detective, and DeWitt is the most reliably unreliable everywoman there is, vulnerable, violent, disingenuous, drunk, high, sexually reckless, vengeful, forgiving, wise, witty and full of heart.’ – Irish Times