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I say it every time I read one of these books- I want to be VI when I grow up. I‘ve been reading these since I was in high school and I really enjoy this series.

My all time🏆 fave series, all the other contenders have dropped by the wayside for one reason or other, Vic keeps going. Here she finds a teenage girl badly injured on rocks on the Lake Michigan shore and the story keeps finding its way back to the water and the river. As always there is white collar crime, and I‘d expect police brutality, but in the end, without spoiling anything, it‘s a story of families and the strength of their loyalties.

VI finds an injured teen girl who stirs up a lot of interest, then disappears. Now she needs to both find the girl and figure out why people are so interested in her. Paretsky has never shied away from incorporating politics into her books, which doesn‘t bother me when it works for the story, but she‘s so intent on hammering away at COVID politics here that the plot is overshadowed. For me, this is her weakest book.

Chicago is just limping back to normalcy after the pandemic. Detective V I Warshawski stumbles upon an enigmatic clue uttered by an injured teenage girl. And then the girl vanishes into thin air, leaving Warshawski in a mess.