Windy City Blues
Vic Warshawski Kriminalgeschichten
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Neunmal Vic Warshawski in Hochform!
Neun Kriminalgeschichten aus Chicago: eine Stadtbesichtigung der eher mörderischen Art an der Seite von Vic Warshawski, die mit den Haien schwimmt, nichts mehr liebt als die Gerechtigkeit und die sich gnadenlos der Wahrheit opfert.
»Zuallererst und vor allem bin ich eine Geschichtenerzählerin. Bücher, die ihren Gegenstand erst erklären müssen, sind langweilig und reizlos.« Sara Paretsky
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Before giving us nine tales featuring her indomitable detective, V.I. Warshawski, Paretsky provides an introduction in which she gives a tour of the industrial south side of Chicago. The piece unwittingly reveals why her novels work so well and why this short-story collection doesn't. Many readers eagerly follow V.I. across the industrial and socioeconomic terrain that Paretsky carefully details and so seamlessly integrates into her novels. But there's no room in these short tales for such marvelously extended Chicago set pieces. Instead, Paretsky has to get by largely on plotting. A Warshawski relative arrives from Italy in "Grace Notes" to find a valuable musical manuscript that once belonged to V.I.'s mother. The Warshawski family tree's tangled roots have tripped the detective up before, and they do so again here. In "Strung Out," a young female tennis star has the usual entourage of pushy parents and lovers and coaches. Suddenly, she's short one pushy parent, and V.I. is on hand to lead us to the killer in this loveless match. On the whole these stories seem slight beside the broader canvases of Warshawski novels like Blood Shot and Guardian Angel.
