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Loading... Blood Shot (1988)by Sara Paretsky
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. So far my favorite of the series! ( ) V I Warshawski is a private investigator who in this book is working outside her usual field of expertise for a family friend. On a daily basis she exhausts herself beyond endurance, flirts with death, irritates both friends and enemies (and she has plenty of the latter) as she tries to bring the Big Shots - the corrupt Big Shots - to justice. Like Warshawski, I rapidly became exhausted by it all. I only picked this book up from the 36 Bus exchange shelf (brilliant idea, that) because I had nothing else to read at that moment. One book from the series is quite enough, thank you, even though it is in fact well and intelligently written. 2017 reread: While some aspects of this 5th entry of the Warshawski series are slightly dated, overall it remains an exciting PI story. Paretsky creates a great sense of place with her descriptions of various parts of Chicago, especially the economically struggling South Side. I found that even though I recalled some aspects of the story from my previous reading (20 or so years ago), much of the story took me by surprise, making this a more exciting read than I had expected.
By sending Warshawski back into the old neighborhood for a closer look at events from the past that helped to shape her character, Ms. Paretsky forces no great self-revelations onto her detective and grants her no inner peace. But she does her best and boldest work to date in creating a criminal investigation that is a genuine heroic quest. AwardsNotable Lists
Fiction.
Mystery.
Thriller.
HTML:??No one, male or female, writes better P.I. books than Paretsky.???The Denver Post V. I. Warshawski isn??t crazy about going back to her old south Chicago neighborhood, but a promise is something she always keeps. Caroline, a childhood friend, has a dying mother and a problem??after twenty-five years she wants V.I. to find the father she never knew. But when V.I. starts probing into the past, she stumbles onto some long-buried secrets??and a very new corpse. Now she??s stirring up a deadly mix of big business and chemical corruption that may become a toxic shock to a snooper who knows too much. ??[Paretsky??s] work does more than turn the genre upside down: her books are beautifully paced and plotted, and the dialogue is fresh and smart.???Newsweek ??Her best and boldest work to date . . . a criminal inv No library descriptions found. |
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