the life and crimes of harry lavender

There are numerous ways in which Marelle Day reverses the conventions of detective fiction with Claudia Valentine. Claudia neither trusts the police nor her friends, and being a female she uses her legs for her own end, physical violence is not her game but seduction may be.

The conventional private investigators would, undoubtedly, trust the police, as an easy method to have a trustworthy resource of information, which could be a laziness and avoidance of having to do the deep dirty work themselves, Claudia does not trust the police which clearly indicates that she is active and enthusiastic, eager to get to the depths of truths herself without a middle man wether that middle man is represented by her friends or the police.
Her childhood experiences coupled with her life acquaintances have taught...