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Reviews"The best boldest work to date...A criminal investigation that is a genuine heroic quest." --The New York Times Book Review., "The best boldest work to date...A criminal investigation that is a genuine heroic quest." -- The New York Times Book Review ., "No one, male or female, writes better P.I. books than Paretsky." -- The Denver Post "[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 investigation that is a genuine heroic quest." -- The New York Times Book Review, "The best boldest work to date...A criminal investigation that is a genuine heroic quest." -- The New York Times Book Review ., "The best boldest work to date...A criminal investigation that is a genuine heroic quest." --The New York Times Book Review. From the Paperback edition.
Synopsis"No one, male or female, writes betterP.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 aproblem-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 investigation that is a genuine heroic quest."- The New York Times Book Review, "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 investigation that is a genuine heroic quest."-- The New York Times Book Review, "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 investigation that is a genuine heroic quest."-- The New York Times Book Review
LC Classification NumberPS3566.A647B58