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Deadlock: 1800 Headwords (Oxford Bookworms Library)
by Sara Paretsky, Rowena Akinyemi (Contributor: Tricia Hedge) (Contributor: Jennifer Bassett)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: OUP Oxford (2000-02-17)
ISBN: 0194230627
EAN: 9780194230629
Paperback: 112 pages
Edition: New Ed
SKU: B404-1118
Condition: New
Comments: In stock - Immediate despatch from an efficient and professional leading British bookselling firm.
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Deadlocked, but not dead in the water.
Rating  (4)
Date: 2001-06-04
4 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is VI Warshawski doing what she does best, getting in way over her head and loving every minute of it. She's smart, sassy, innovative and like a dog with a bone she just won't let go. When her cousin Boom Boom falls to his death at the docks where he works VI just can't accept that it was an 'accident' as the police would have her believe. No sooner does she start digging a little deeper into the business dealings of the shipping company for whom Boom Boom worked does she get results. As she moves ever closer towards the reason why her cousin ended up at the bottom of Lake Michigan, she finds herself face to face with a dead body in Boom Boom's apartment and then almost winds up dead when her car is tampered with. Someone doesn't want her getting any closer to the reason behind his death, but who? As the story unfolds we learn more about the people in Boom Boom's life and the action is non stop, VI is our tour guide and she does not fail to deliver.Reading about VI so enjoyable because she is such a determined, capable but essentially flawed character. Along with all the action we are allowed to peek into VI's unconventional lifestyle and her chequered past. She is a herioc, albeit gun toting, female detective of whom I look forward to reading more about in the future.
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