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by Sara Paretsky (Author) "The heat and the tawdry sameness of the road drugged everyone to silence ..." (more)

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Hardcover: 321 pages
Publisher: William Morrow & Co (April 1987)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0688064485
ISBN-13: 978-0688064488
Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14 x 1.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 318 g

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Since her debut in Paretsky's Indemnity Only, Chicago private eye V. (Victoria) I. Warshawski has been attracting both enthusiastic readers and critical acclaim. This fourth story narrated by the spiky detective is the series' most suspenseful so far. V. I. brings a teenager about to give premature birth to a private hospital where the mother and her baby die. Since the poor girl's own obstetrician is unavailable, Warshawski's friend, Dr. Tregiere, arrives from his inner-city hospital to check procedures; he's found murdered later. So is the supposedly bereaved husband, member of a street gang that atacks Warshawski during her tenacious investigation of the related cases. There are other appalling deaths as tough V. I. gets to the facts behind a tawdry coverup. The cast of the earlier mysteries again adds flavor here, and the big city's ethnic mix, as enlived by Paretsky, does too.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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A pregnant friend of V.I. "Vic" Warshawski, lady shamus extraordinaire, dies in the emergency room of a local hospital. Vic suspects malpractice and sets out to prove it. Then a physician is murdered, Vic's apartment is ransacked, and her face is slashed. More than a routine examination! HC: Morrow. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Politics over Plotting, Dec 20 2003

By	April J. Brown "aj_brown" (Albuquerque, NM United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Bitter Medicine (Mass Market Paperback)

I have read all of the Sara Paretsky mysteries, and think this is the weakest of the group. She maintains her writerly skill, but the plot in this novel feels like it was devised to make a political point about women's access to health care and particularly to abortion. In the process, she takes pot shots at her political opponents by making the characters of those who disagree with her unidimensional, manipulative, and unlikeable. The novel does have suspenseful elements, but not enough, and I just didn't buy the story. If you want to read all the books in the series, this is readable. If you're picking the best, go with Hard Time or Tunnel Vision.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Bad medicine, Mar 24 2001

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This review is from: Bitter Medicine (Mass Market Paperback)

Almost interesting, but finally wraps up with stock villians and an implausable resolution. The fact that this is set entirely in the world of doctors and hospitals, healthcare economics, which Ms Paretsky obviously does not understand, dooms the story.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fast paced action, Jan 12 2000

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A complicated story that keeps the reader rivetted, and of course, a surprise ending.

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