I tried a second Sara Paretsky novel, "Hard Time," and this one was a much better detective-mystery story than the first one I read, "Fire Sale." She uses Chicago as her stage, and she really does a good job of giving a full picture of life across multiple cultural and socioeconomic slices. It all starts with the PI, V.I. Warshawski, nearly running over a woman, and then spending the rest of the book trying to figure out how that happened, who she really was, who was behind her being in the middle of the street, etc. I have another one of her books in my stack of books to read, and I'm sure I'll give her another go.
WC Don
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