Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead

Claire DeWitt has to be one of the oddest detectives ever. She is kind of spooky, she has no fear, she gets inspiration from dreams and I Ching, she drinks too much, and she does drugs. Additionally, she seems to be in a perpetual state of existential crisis, with events of her past dogging her ceaselessly.
Such a person should be a total wreck, no? But au contraire, she is “the best detective in the world”.
Claire DeWitt returns to New Orleans, a city where she has a lot of history, to investigate the disappearance of a DA attorney who went missing during Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans is still a broken city. It and its citizens have not yet recovered from the trauma. Her investigation takes her deep into the NO gang culture. She knows it is dangerous, but she cannot help but go where her detective sense takes her. She has adventures, some of them internal, on the fringes of society as she follows her unconventional path to the truth.
An odd-ball story, but I liked it.
3.5 stars rounded up.