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Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Publication Date
2010
Language
English
Description
V. I. Warshawski, a tough Chicago detective with a law degree and a proficiency in karate, is hired by her client to find a missing college girl
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Contributors
Paretsky, Sara Author
ISBN
9780307477736
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Readers looking for tough-minded female private investigators with a strong sense of feminism (V.I. Warshawski) and social justice (Chicago Mysteries) will find them in both of these series. Chicago mysteries feature a Black female protagonist. -- Andrienne Cruz
Chicago detectives go up against kidnappers, murderers and more in these intricately plotted mystery series. Both depict the gritty crime world of a big city, but one is fast-paced (Warshawski) while the other more leisurely. -- Jennie Stevens
Though V. I. Warshawski lives in Chicago and Emma Djan in Ghana, both of these tough-as-nails women private investigators fight to find the truth behind shocking crimes in these gritty mystery series. -- Stephen Ashley
Both of these gritty and fast-paced mystery series star determined investigators (police in Blue Mumbai and private in V. I. Warshawski) who always hunt for the truth even in the darkest of situations. Blue Mumbai's cases are somewhat more disturbing. -- Stephen Ashley
While King Oliver is a bit broodier than V. I. Warshawski, both resolute big-city private detectives (Warshawski works in Chicago and Oliver in New York City) unflinchingly pursue justice at any cost in these gritty mystery series. -- Stephen Ashley
Though V. I. Warshawski is faster paced and Detective Harriet Foster is focused more on atmosphere, both suspenseful mystery series star tough Chicago-based women crime solvers who take on a variety of complex, sometimes dangerous cases. -- Stephen Ashley
Though Kate Delafield is an LAPD cop and V. I. Warshawski is a Chicago-based private investigator, both tough women solve crimes and fight for justice for people without a voice in these suspenseful mystery series. -- Stephen Ashley
Readers looking for a suspenseful mystery series with a gritty (Warshawski) or menacing (Hanne Wilhelmsen) edge and a tough woman lead should check out both of these compelling series. Warshawski works in Chicago, and Wilhelmsen in Oslo, Norway. -- Stephen Ashley
These fast-paced mystery series will leave readers breathless as tough, keen-eyed sleuths take on a variety of dangerous cases. V. I. Warshawksi is a Chicago-based private investigator, while Lincoln Rhyme is a NYPD cop turned consultant. -- Stephen Ashley
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Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone and Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski are both clever, tough, and independent PIs. Though Warshawski may have a more fervent feminist slant and a harder edge than Millhone, fans of gritty, urban detective stories featuring female protagonists will enjoy both authors. -- Ellen Guerci
Faye Kellerman's mysteries set in gritty Los Angeles and environs may appeal to Sara Paretsky's fans for their determined, socially conscious lead characters, Pete Decker and Rina Lazarus. The intense plots and vivid sense of place will capture fans of Paretsky's urban setting. -- Katherine Johnson
Like Sara Paretsky's mysteries, Val McDermid's feature a focus on issues in contemporary women's lives, incorporate an urban setting, and explore the political and societal landscape of that setting through complicated plotting. -- Bethany Latham
Andrew M. Greeley's and Sara Paretsky's mysteries, set in Chicago, feature strong, resilient female protagonists whose particular talent is hunting criminals. Greeley favors amateur sleuths and a more evocative atmosphere, while Paretsky throws in more grit and social commentary. Both writers, however, prefer a fast pace and plenty of suspense. -- Mike Nilsson
Edna Buchanan and Sara Paretsky both write intelligent mysteries with well-developed series characters, complex investigations, treatment of tough social issues, and detailed settings. Buchanan's novels are set in Miami and Paretsky's take place in Chicago. -- Ellen Guerci
Judith A. Jance and Sara Paretsky both write about private investigators who came from other careers. Though Jance's novels have a less-hard edge, readers enjoy her adventures for the same reasons they enjoy those of Paretsky's characters. Both also portray settings in vivid detail. -- Katherine Johnson
Although her setting is often rural Oregon rather than urban Chicago, Kate Wilhelm's provocative Barbara Holloway legal thrillers offer similar satisfactions for Sara Paretsky's fans. Prickly and aggressive heroine Holloway struggles with important social themes in an equally well-defined landscape as she strives for justice at any cost. -- Ellen Guerci
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Published Reviews
Kirkus Book Review
In Lamaar Ransome, Private Eye (p. 462), David Galloway played the idea of a super-hard-boiled female shamus strictly for laughs--not very successfully. Here, however, with narrator-sleuth V. I. (Victoria) Warshawski of Chicago, first-novelist Paretsky is doing the same thing with an absolutely straight face; and the result, if rather flat, is a sturdily readable diversion that's no more implausible than any other hard-boiled fare. The case begins when V.I. is hired by banker John Thayer (or so he identifies himself) to locate Anita, the missing girlfriend of his son Peter. But when V.I. then promptly discovers Peter's murdered body, the plot thickens: her client, it seems, was really Anita's father, a shady labor leader; and Peter was working for the Ajax Insurance Co.--which may have had illegal connections with the labor leader and with some mobster types (who rough V.I. up). Then Peter's father (the real John Thayer) is also murdered, so the insurance/bank/union/mob tangle gets more complicated. And before V.I. exposes a convincing insurance scare, she finds the missing Anita and plays godmother to Peter Thayer's unhappy teenage sister. Predictably plotted, but written with agreeable plainness--and, except for V.I.'s affair with a suspect (is he just another ""pretty face""?), the sex-role shift is handled with just the right sort of un-cute, matter-of-fact credibility. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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