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Title: Blood Shot by Sara Paretsky ISBN: 0440204208 Publisher: Dell Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.7
Rating: 3
Summary: Something Missing
Comment: This is a South Chicago story and probably has more impact if you've lived there. Her business as a private eye helped V. I. Warshawski to escape from the 'hood, but she feels ensnared again when a childhood friend's appeal for help draws her obsessively back to investigate her friend's unknown paternity. The quest for the friend's father, the murder of a high school friend, and other threads put her on the trail of powerful and ruthless men, who make her their next target. This story borders on being very good. The detective work and suspense are good but not particularly memorable. I have the feeling that V. I. is intended to be a character of some depth, but something was missing in the recorded book version, read by Donada Peters. V. I. seemed reckless, rather than tough. Maybe I expected Kathleen Turner.
Rating: 5
Summary: A provocative and compelling mystery
Comment: Published in Australia under the title, Toxic Shock, this novel shows that Sara Paretsky is getting better every time she puts pen to paper.
V. I. is forced to confront the past she thought she'd escaped when a cry for help from an old friend takes her back to Chicago's South Side. In an industrial wasteland of chemical plants and toxic swamps, she must unravel a mystery more than 30 years old, defeat a financial giant and take revenge for an outrageous crime against the people she grew up with, while reliving her memories of childhood.
The truth is hard to find, and harder to believe, but with the unwitting aid of friends, old and new, she does deliver - as does Paretsky, whose writing is crisp and powerful, with multi-dimensional characters and a rivetting, unpredictable plot.
A provocative and compelling mystery from the First Lady of Crime Fiction.
Rating: 4
Summary: Blood Shot is another example of Paretsky's honesty
Comment: Sara Paretsky's writing has its faults and its biases, but I enjoy her Warshawski novels for their honesty, the uniqueness of her detective, and the warmth of some of her characters, like the older neighbor Sal Contreras. I don't think V.I. is in the least like Kinsey Milhone, in fact, she is more like Sam Spade, and I appreciate her for it. The Warshawski novels get progressively better, with Killing Orders as the worst, for its hints of bigotry, and Guardian Angel as the best, for its humanity. V.I. is unique, and I cannot get enough of her.
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Title: Burn Marks by Sara Paretsky ISBN: 0440208459 Publisher: Dell Books Pub. Date: March, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Killing Orders by Sara Paretsky ISBN: 0440215285 Publisher: Dell Books Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Indemnity Only by Sara Paretsky ISBN: 0440210690 Publisher: Dell Books Pub. Date: July, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Bitter Medicine by Sara Paretsky ISBN: 044023476X Publisher: Dell Pub Co Pub. Date: 13 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Deadlock by Sara Paretsky ISBN: 0440213320 Publisher: Dell Pub Co Pub. Date: April, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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