分類：Sara Paretsky

Blacklist (V I Warshawaski #11) 2022#41

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Wednesday, April 27, 2022

評分：3 分，滿分為 5。

Sara Paretsky

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“As a favor to her most important client, V. I. agrees t check up on an empty mansion. But instead of a mysterious intruder, she discovers a dead man in the ornamental pond – a reporter for an African-American publication whom the suburban cops are quick to dismiss as a suicide.

When the man’s shattered family hires V. I. to investigate, she is sucked into a Gothic tale of sex, money, and power, leading her back to McCarthy-era blacklists and forward to some of the darker aspects of the Patriot Act. As V. I. finds herself penned in to a smaller and smaller space by an array of people trying to silence her, and before she can untangle the sordid truth, two more people will die – and V. I.’s own life will hang in the balance.

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I knew Sara Paretsky from an introdution of another book by another author. Don’t remember which and when, though. She was mentioned as one of the author’s favorite authors. Since then, I started looking for her books here. Not easy. I have two of her books, I guess. This is my second reading of the I. V. Warshawaski series. I don’t particularly like I. V. Warshawaski. She is tough in a way I don’t like. Eve Dallas is tough, too. But she is my favorite. Not like Dallas, who knows what she is doing and do well, I. V., well, to me, seems to be always fighting a war in the wrong way? Poor girl.

Guardian Angel 2021#64

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Monday, August 16, 2021

評分：3 分，滿分為 5。

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.