Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Wildcat by Sara Paretsky

WILDCAT:

V. I. Warshawski's First Case

by Sara Paretsky

on Tour March 7 - April 7, 2017

Publisher Synopsis:

Sara Paretsky, one of the most legendary crime writers of all time, presents an exclusive and thrilling short story featuring beloved investigator V.I. Warshawski as a ten-year-old girl on her first investigation.

V.I. Warshawski developed her strength and sense of justice at a very early age. It’s 1966 and on the south side of Chicago racial tensions are at an all-time high. Dr. Martin Luther King is leading marches at Marquette Park and many in the neighborhood are very angry.
With nothing but a bicycle, eighty-two cents in her pocket, and her Brownie camera hanging from her wrist, Victoria sneaks off to Marquette Park alone to protect her father Tony, a police officer who is patrolling the crowds.
What begins as a small adventure and a quest to find her father and make sure he is safe turns into something far more dangerous. As the day goes on and the conflict at the park reaches a fever pitch Victoria realizes she must use her courage and ingenuity if she wants to keep herself and her family members out of harm’s way.

My review:

Having read many of the V. I. Warshawski mysteries over the years, reading this novella was very interesting. We readers usually come upon our detectives as adults already in some form of detecting business. This short story gives us an insight into Victoria at a young age. She's a feisty one, racing off to a very dangerous area during heightened racial tensions. The part of the story I liked the best was when she got into trouble. Desperate, she remembers her mother's advice of survival. Her mother had escaped the Nazis as a young woman and had told Victoria the way she survived was by her wits: keep calm, think, and be lucky. Those wits helped her at ten years old and would get a workout in the future.

If you're a reader of Paretsky, you will enjoy this short, finding out a little history of your favorite investigator. You'll also get an advance look at the newest Warshawski novel, releasing in April.

Book Details:
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Published by: Witness Impulse
Publication Date: March 7, 2017
Number of Pages: 45
ISBN: 0062689509 (ISBN13: 9780062689504)
Series: V.I. Warshawski
Purchase Links: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads

Author Bio:

Hailed by P.D. James as "the most remarkable" of modern crime writers, SARA PARETSKY is the New York Times-bestselling author of nineteen previous novels, including the renowned V.I. Warshawski series. She is one of only four living writers – alongside John Le Carré, Sue Grafton, and Lawrence Block – to have received both the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain. She lives in Chicago with her husband.
Before there was Lisbeth Salander, before there was Stephanie Plum, there was V.I. WARSHAWSKI. She took the mystery world by storm in 1982 with her first appearance in Indemnity Only. A gifted private eye with the grit and smarts to tackle the mean streets, V.I. transformed a genre in which women were typically either vamps or victims. As a "courageous, sexually liberated female investigator," she "has a humility, a humanity, and a need for human relationships which the male hard-boilers lack" (P.D. James). She lives in Chicago with her dog.

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