8/5/2023 0 Comments Guardian angel![]() The next thing you know he’s had 10 and you either have to carry him home or pay to repair a window.” These old drunks eat up a lot of family time.” Someone else, who had recently turned down Kruger’s invitation for a drink, tells her: “I know what those drinks with Mitch are like. Tessie, a middle-aged barmaid, comments on V.I.’s search for a supposed missing uncle: “Hope you find him, honey. into contact with tough, down-and-out types, whom Ms. But our interest never flags, since plenty of solid groundwork is being laid and we get into the detective’s skin much more than is usual in a private-eye novel. Warshawski to track down a missing old man. It isn’t until page 50 of Sara Paretsky’s new novel, Guardian Angel, that a client engages V.I. Warshawski is that rarity among fictive P.I.’s-a fully realized character…Sara Paretsky’s sensitivity and moral perspective, coupled with her fine talent, make her a significant American novelist. She’s certainly not mellow, but refreshingly introspective, and uncharacteristically vulnerable. Rich in character and atmosphere… Guardian Angel shows Vic in a different, somewhat softer light. The author’s gift for finding the precise urban setting and crafting her narrative jigsaw puzzle with unerring accuracy remains intact. Here Paretsky constructs and maintains one monster of a plot…. Warshawski (aka ‘Vic’) take a few more physical lumps, though the more interesting dings are emotional ones. With each novel Paretsky lets intrepid detective V.I. ![]() Warshawski is “America’s most convincing and engaging female private eye.” ( Entertainment Weekly). Guardian Angel, the seventh in Sara Paretsky’s best-selling series, proves once again that V.I. is left alone to struggle with the most serious case of her career. When her dear friend Lotty Herschel and her own lawyer turn against her, V.I. Her investigation takes her into the depths of the steamy Sanitary Canal and brings her eyeball-to-eyeball with her ex-husband, Dick Yarborough. uncovers a scandal linking one of Chicago’s oldest industrial families to union fraud and a politically connected bank. When her downstairs neighbor’s oldest friend disappears, Mr. starts poking around in the Picheas’ affairs, hoping to turn up something scandalous enough to make them lose their guardianship. returns from a business trip to find they’ve put the old woman’s dogs to sleep. But neighboring lawyer Todd Pichea and his wife, Chrissie, act swiftly to get the courts to make them Hattie’s legal guardians. When Hattie slips in her bath and is rushed unconscious to the hospital, V.I. and Hattie have a relationship of sorts: one of those five dogs gave V.I.’s dog Peppy an unwelcome litter. To the yuppies on the block the worst eyesore belongs to old Hattie Frizell, whose yard is “returning to native prairie, complete with hubcaps.” Their block club wants her and her five dogs gone. ![]() As tax bills skyrocket, newcomers pressure old inhabitants into fixing up their homes or moving out. Racine Avenue is going upscale-bad news for hand-to-mouth residents like V.I.
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