Deadlock, Sara Paretsky
Deadlock, Sara Paretsky
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Deadlock

Author: Sara Paretsky

Narrator: Susan Ericksen

Unabridged: 10 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/08/2012

Synopsis

Deadlock, V. I. Warshawski’s second case, involves the huge Great Lakes shipping industry. Once again the subject is murder — this time the “accidental death” of Boom-Boom Warshawski, an ex-hockey star and V. I.’s beloved cousin, who fell — or was pushed — off a rain-slicked pier on Chicago’s busy waterfront. Convinced that Boom-Boom was in fact killed because of information he had uncovered about criminal doings on the shipping lines, V. I. begins a long and frustrating search for her cousin’s murderer. In the course of an investigation that takes her to a remote Canadian port city and a calamitous trip on a sabotaged freighter, V. I. finds all too many possible candidates for the killer, including a grain company executive involved in extortion; and rival heads of two shippers, one of whom is being blackmailed for his criminal past; a hockey player whose specialty is graft; and Boom-Boom’s lover, an icily beautiful dancer with expensive tastes in men and merchandise.

About Sara Paretsky

Sara Paretsky is the author of fourteen previous books, including twelve V. I. Warshawski novels. She is the winner of many awards, including the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writers’ Association. She lives in Chicago.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on July 05, 2019

Book Review VI's back and this time it's personal. Although it appears like her cousin, Boom Boom Warshawski, a famous hockey player, slipped off the wharf, VI smells trouble lurking in the depths of his shallow grave. 4 of 5 stars to Deadlock, the second book in the VI Warshawski thrille......more

Goodreads review by Karl on August 18, 2022

Paretsky's second detective novel is longer, more complex, and not really better. Vic investigates her cousin's death, an apparent accident. The cousin worked for a grain company that has suspicious ties to a great-lakes shipping company, and Vic pokes among the wealthy and powerful. People get kill......more

Goodreads review by aPriL does feral sometimes on December 16, 2012

Loved it. A fantastic read, exciting and difficult to stop after a few chapters each time I picked it up. This time V. I. Warshawski is too emotional to be reasonable, and when she is emotional, she gets coldly angry, a deadly combination. Her favorite cousin, Boom Boom, an ex-Black Hawks hockey pla......more

Goodreads review by Gretchen on July 12, 2018

As I've mentioned, these books are certainly of their time, but they are SO fun. Paretsky's research into how Great Lakes shipping works is a fascinating backdrop for this murder mystery, and there's enough badass women-can-do-it attitude and Chicago references to keep me happy (although the geograp......more

Goodreads review by Luis on September 19, 2020

Entretenida novela, con una trama muy bien desarrollada, plena de acción, situaciones de peligro, y muertes, que nos presenta un nuevo caso de V.I.Warshawski. Cuando su primo muere en lo que aparenta ser un trágico accidente, Vic se queda intranquila y comienza a averiguar qué le pasó. Sus sospechas......more

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