I have been reading Paretsky's long-standing V I Warshawski series on and off for a couple of years now. The series is about a female private investigator who tackles social injustices like racial tensions (Hardball, 2009) or immigrant families (Fire Sale, 2005) set in the windy city of Chicago.
In Body Work (2010), the fourteenth in the series, Paretsky touched on the ills of money and how one's life can affect those in and/or far beyond our own circles, sometimes with disastrous consequences, although there is almost always a rainbow at the end of the tunnel. A young painter was shot in a nightclub and the police assumed the shooter was a soldier who had flown into a rage at the nightclub. The soldier's family hired V I Warshawski to find out what happened as they did not believe that their son could kill a woman and that is when a chain of ugly truths was laid bare. There is a very good story in this novel and one can deduce a moral or two or three from it. As usual, Paretsky never disappoints.
It can be read on its own but I would recommend that readers check out Paretsky's earlier V I Warshawski's novels as well.
Sara Paretsky talks about Body Work:
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Rating: 5/5
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