Deadlock
by Sara Paretsky
More happens in the first 25 pages of one of Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski
detective adventures than in entire novels by other authors. Deadlock,
which explores the world of grain shipping on the Great Lakes, is no exception.
V.I. Warshawksi is always thinking, and in Deadlock, she thinks maybe
her cousin Boom Boom, an ex-hockey player from the Chicago Black Hawks,
met death on the Chicago docks from unnatural causes. A series of accidents
does nothing to assuage her suspicions.
Her investigations take her from dockside to lockside, and also backstage
at the ballet as she does that ol' P.I. thing, shaking people up, trying
to discover information, and simultaneously raising the ire of the police
and unknown miscreants alike. At one point she even
ends up in the
hospital for her trouble.
This one's enjoyable, so get out your lockpicks and your law degree,
call in all your favors and steal your way down to www.amazon.com for
another
fun-filled adventure with V.I. Warshawski. Don't forget your gun,
but by the way, don't shoot anyone, OK? V.I. never seems to, even though
she thinks about it a lot.
reviewed Saturday March 11, 2000