Hardball - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by:
Sara Paretsky (author)
A V.I. mystery. VI races against the clock to rescue her vanished cousin, she's also forced to confront disturbing truths about the city's racial fault lines, which, as she all too aptly observes, "run through my family, along with the rest of the South Side."
A V.I. mystery. VI races against the clock to rescue her vanished cousin, she's also forced to confront disturbing truths about the city's racial fault lines, which, as she all too aptly observes, "run through my family, along with the rest of the South Side."
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780399155932 (0399155937)
ASIN: B007H8YK9U
Publish date: 2010
Publisher: Putnam
Pages no: 446
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
American,
Adult,
Mystery,
Detective,
Politics,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense,
Fiction
This book fluctuates between the summer of 1967 & present day. She's searching for a young man who went missing that summer. The young man's African American and it was a racially charged summer in Chicago. Along the way she delves into the past of her uncle & beloved father. Like always this is...
I haven't read one of these for a while but bought this at the airport and quite enjoyed it, Chicago in the 1960s a good place to start. But I was put off by the number of different characters introduced at the beginning and the book needed a good editing, overlong and too messy.
Great read!! Vic is looking for a man who disappeared over 40 years ago, the night before the big blizzard of '67. His aunt is dying and her wish is to see him again before she dies. This story ends up involving all kinds of people from Vic's past, even her father, and into the present with high ...
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