Overboard by Sara Paretsky: A review
This is the twenty-first novel in the V.I. Warshawski series that Sara Paretsky first began publishing in 1982 with Indemnity Only . I've read them all. I've been a Warshawski fan since the beginning. So for forty years, Paretsky has been writing these books and I've been reading them. And one thing that I have enjoyed about them is that V.I. has aged through them, if not exactly forty years then at least enough to simulate reality. In this latest book, V.I. may be feeling the weight of those years a bit but her passion for justice is undiminished. As often in her cases, a teenager is involved. V.I., the hardboiled detective, has a certifiable soft spot for teenagers. This time it is a teenage girl who V.I.'s dog Mitch finds when they are on a walk around Lake Michigan. The girl is injured and unconscious and has only a faint pulse when V.I. checks her. She calls an ambulance and the girl is taken to the hospital after uttering only one word which seems to make no s
Lovely. By the way, I keep seeing butterflies - today I saw one near a tree just around sunrise - it was unusually warm (79, same as yesterday) for an upstate New York fall day and I hope that butterfly survives whatever journey it is making.
ReplyDeleteMost butterflies are able to survive quite cool temperatures as long as they aren't accompanied by inclement weather. It's cold plus wet conditions that cause them problems they can't handle.
DeleteVery nice.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
DeleteSomehow I didn't notice this post until now, weird...Anyways, just lovely! Lucky you to have beautiful flowers and butterflies in your garden. :-) Well, thinking about it, it's not luck but hard work rewarded. ;-)
ReplyDeleteGardening is hard work on one level; on another, it's just playing in the dirt.
DeleteBeautiful! The butterflies love lantana...and so do I.
ReplyDeleteIt's a mainstay of my garden.
Delete