Fallout
A V.I. Warshawski Novel
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4.3 • 127 Ratings
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Publisher Description
LEE CHILD says she's "a genius."
P.D. JAMES called her "the most remarkable" of today's suspense writers.
STIEG LARSSON loved her work so much, he named her in his novels.
And now SARA PARETSKY returns with the most extraordinary novel of her legendary career: FALLOUT.
Before there was Lisbeth Salander, before there was Stephanie Plum, there was V.I. WARSHAWSKI. To her parents, she's Victoria Iphigenia. To her friends, she's Vic. But to clients seeking her talents as a detective, she's V.I. And her new case will lead her from her native Chicago... and into Kansas, on the trail of a vanished film student and a faded Hollywood star.
Accompanied by her dog, V.I. tracks her quarry through a university town, across fields where missile silos once flourished — and into a past riven by long-simmering racial tensions, a past that holds the key to the crimes of the present. But as the mysteries stack up, so does the body count. And in this, her toughest case, not even V.I. is safe.
Exciting and provocative, fiercely intelligent and witty, FALLOUT is reading at its most enjoyable and powerful.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In MWA Grand Master Paretsky's intriguing, if flawed, 19th V.I. Warshawski novel (after 2015's Brushback), the Chicago PI looks into the disappearance of August Veriden, a quiet young man with dreams of working behind the camera. She learns that August became enamored of Emerald Ferring, a black actress well known in her community but little known to white people. With some cajoling, Warshawski persuades Emerald's close friends to let her follow August and Emerald's path to the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where Emerald was once a student and August was planning to film a documentary about her. On arrival in Lawrence, the detective is welcomed with less-than-open arms. Unfortunately, Paretsky loses the Emerald thread midway as Warshawski becomes entangled in small-town politics, particularly those involving the mentally ill daughter of an eminent scientist and the town's history as a spot for anti-nuke protests in the 1980s. Sharply drawn characters partly compensate for a plot that's fascinating when it stays on track but too often meanders.)
Customer Reviews
Fallout
Excellent story as we have come to expect. Great character development and filled with surprises.
Fallout
Wonderfully complex and engaging. Amazing characters jump off the pages either into your heart or they smack you in the gut.
Fallout
Another Paretsky triumph...... her writing is well structured but even better is that the reader is drawn in to the conflicts presented. Please, keep writing.