Not since crime-fiction masters Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammet has a mystery writer integrated a character and an environment so seamlessly, to such telling, vibrant effect. Warshawski Series 1) by Sara Paretsky 3.7 (34) eBook 7.99 Paperback 7.99 eBook 7.99 Audiobook 35.99 Audio MP3 on CD 9.99 Audio CD 9.99 View All Available Formats & Editions Instant Purchase Available on Compatible NOOK Devices and the free NOOK Apps. As it is, Paretsky and Warshawski may have to wait another year. If only Indemnity Only had been published in 1981 it would have been a leading contender for 1982 MWA first mystery novel honors. It is the plotting that is so convincing here, that and the characterizations. to a lonely teenage girl who is at the heart of a terrible labor-racketeering-insurance scam and the deaths that are to ensue from it. She has been a lawyer she has a marvelous group of friends, from a woman doctor who specializes in helping near-desperate street people to a somewhat uncertain insurance executive who thinks he may be falling in love with V.I. Warshawski (a little later on we will get to know her as “Vic”), a Chicago private detective.

figures out the answers she is in a race to find the missing young woman-before the murderers do.Įxciting, intelligent and truly involving in terms of making you want to find out everything there is to know about the characters you are meeting, Indemnity Only looks like the start of a very winning new mystery series. Her efforts to track down her client and learn his true identity take her deep into a labyrinth of fraud and violence.īy the time V.I. finds young Peter’s dead body instead, her client disappears. Hired by a man who calls himself John Thayer, V.I.’s assignment is to find Thayer’s son Peter’s missing girlfriend. Warshawski mystery, America’s top private eye is tossed into dangerous adventure when a seemingly straightforward assignment becomes complicated and deadly. In this gripping adventure, the first V.I.

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