Sara Paretsky defies the old notion that regional detectives don’t travel well outside their home turf. She’s strong, she’s fierce, and she carries that chip on her shoulder with real pride.
In FALLOUT her Chicago private eye, Warshawski, goes on a solo road trip to Kansas (where Paretsky was born) with her dog, Peppy, for the company and her red Bruno pumps, just in case a tornado carries her off to the land of Oz.
Key Takeaways:
- Sara Paretsky defies the old notion that regional detectives don’t travel well outside their home turf.
- An elderly black actress named Emerald Ferring and the young videographer she hired to film a documentary about her life have gone off the map somewhere en route to her childhood home.
- The detective passes through plenty of dinky towns as she makes her way across the prairie, mystified by all the nuclear missile silos left over from the Cold War.
“The detective passes through plenty of dinky towns as she makes her way across the prairie, mystified by all the nuclear missile silos left over from the Cold War.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/books/review/fallout-sara-paretsky.html
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