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Sto caricando le informazioni... Fire Sale (2005)di Sara Paretsky
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Another good read with VI Warshawsky as the main character. This one finds Victoria caught up in the web of a corporate giant BySmart, a fire at a southside garment factory and the murder of two people connected to BySmart. She is also substituting as a basketball coach in this same community. Excellant read. Victoria Warshawski es una investigadora privada que procede de los barrios del sur de Chicago donde la inmigracion, las drogas, los embarazos adolescentes y el absentismo escolar son una constante. Aquejada de cáncer, la entrenadora de baloncesto del instituto donde ella estudio le pide que asuma el control del equipo femenino y Warshawski no puede negarse. Este regreso a South Chicago supone una dolorosa vuelta al pasado... This one was pretty enjoyable. We have VI dealing with being forced to volunteer (voluntold) as a basketball coach at her old high school. Not only does she have to deal with girls who are in gangs and others who are trying to raise kids, she gets pulled into a family dispute among the rich when she goes looking for donations to help with equipment, uniforms, and other essentials for the team. I also like how Paretsky works in VI's long term romance with her boyfriend Morello at this point. I liked we get to see VI making it work with someone and also becoming jealous when a colleague (female) from his times overseas comes to stay. We have a lot of interesting characters in this one and though I found some of the things that happened implausible (hence the 4 stars) I really did enjoy this one. I started reading mysteries in about 1987ish because I saw Sara Paretsky on the Today Show and she made her V.I. Warshawski character sound like someone I wanted to know. She was right and I went on from there to meet many other wonderful characters in many other mystery books but Sara and V.I. will always have a special place in my heart. In Fire Sale, V.I. is back in her old South Chicago neighborhood to help her old high school basketball coach who is too sick to coach and needs V.I. to temp. When one of the players' mom asks for her help looking into something at work and that work then mysteriously burned to the ground, V.I. got her next case. It's as good as all of her adventures. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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V.I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V.I. takes over coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former high school, she faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms who inevitably draw the detective into their family woes. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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