Monday, August 16, 2021

Sara Paretsky

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“Underneath V. I. Warshawski’s wisecracking P.I. exterior lies a real pushover. When elderly neighbor Mr. Contreras asks her to look into a fellow union retiree’s sudden disappearance, she says “yes” from her heart, not her head. And when a crotchety eighty-year-old dog owner starts wrangling with a Yuppie-Come-Lately couple on their blue-collar street, again, it’s V.I. to the rescue.
 
Only it all goes to hell in a handbasket when Mr. Yuppie turns out to be a lawyer in V.I.’s ex-husband’s law firm, and the missing retiree turns up floating facedown in a canal. And now V.I.’s strapping on her shoulder holster to snoop into Chicago’s labor unions and politicos, because being on the side of the angels won’t win her any halos… but it’s the perfect place for an encounter with violent death."

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According to the library card, the previous check-out of this book was exactly one year ago. Wow!

I kind of liked it, sometimes, and disliked it, some other times, while I was reading this book. V. I. Warshawski was a tough female detective. For probably the first half of the book, she underwent all sorts of difficulties, which seemed to just make her tougher, but they made me suffer by going through them with her.

I still can’t decide whether I like this book. However, I can’t find any of her books here in any of the libraries. Which sort of helps me solve the do-I-want-to-read-another-Paretsky’s-book problem.