" You cannot follow another's footsteps to the truth," Silette wrote. "A hand can point the way. But the hand is not the teaching. The finger that points the way is not the way. The mystery is a pathless land, and each detective must cut her own trail through a cruel territory.
"Believe nothing. Question everything. Follow only the clues. "

― Sara Gran , Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #1)