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raymond_murphy's review against another edition
4.0
I just can’t stop reading mysteries during the pandemic.
This is one of the stronger entries I’ve read so far in the series. VI was more realistic and less unlike able. I’d sure hate to be in the second floor apartment if her building though!
Plot: old friend needs help finding out who her father is before her mom dies. Sinister corporate intrigue overlaps. Danger!
This is one of the stronger entries I’ve read so far in the series. VI was more realistic and less unlike able. I’d sure hate to be in the second floor apartment if her building though!
Plot: old friend needs help finding out who her father is before her mom dies. Sinister corporate intrigue overlaps. Danger!
njgriffin's review against another edition
2.0
V. I. Warshawski is a well established female PI. While I know that in many ways this is a send up of the genre I was a bit disappointed. Seen as one of the few feminist detective characters the rest of the women in the book were terrible characters. Maybe I just got a bad book (its only the 5th of 17) and also a bit of its time 1988.
abbeyhar103's review against another edition
I forgot what can make these books wearing - it's almost an endless description of people leaving phone messages for each other
cwebb's review against another edition
3.0
It's getting very repetitive, as V.I. always faces two cases, at least one of them strictly personal, which miraculously combine into one big case and thus almost solve themselves.
katemc7's review against another edition
3.0
This series is so entertaining and easy to read. VI can be a little annoying at times but overall enjoyed this book.
liberrydude's review against another edition
3.0
Vic embarks on a favor for a neighborhood friend who was like a little sister to her. It’s to find out who her was father is. Lots of family angst on the Southside and Eastside of Chicago. Dark secrets. The mere mention of two names at a chemical plant starts the infamous Chicago machine and mob shadowing Vic. Soon a childhood friend is murdered. A simple paternity investigation morphs into the uncovering of a massive industrial and environmental poisoning with insurance fraud and local corruption. Vic comes close to death. Were it not for her guardian neighbor Mr Contreras this series would be over.
lazwright's review against another edition
4.0
I love it when VI takes on "the man" and brings down the bad guy. This story centers on a big chemical corporation on the South Side of Chicago-a little pre-Erin Brockovich type story.
margaret21's review against another edition
2.0
V I Warshawski is a private investigator who in this book is working outside her usual field of expertise for a family friend. On a daily basis she exhausts herself beyond endurance, flirts with death, irritates both friends and enemies (and she has plenty of the latter) as she tries to bring the Big Shots - the corrupt Big Shots - to justice. Like Warshawski, I rapidly became exhausted by it all. I only picked this book up from the 36 Bus exchange shelf (brilliant idea, that) because I had nothing else to read at that moment. One book from the series is quite enough, thank you, even though it is in fact well and intelligently written.