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A.K.A. Indemnity Only – A Quick Review
Ah V.I. Warshawski! One of the first of the "new breed" of tough female detectives. Forget the bad movie with Kathleen Turner, the novels show us a woman who is prepared to walk on the dark side to find the truth.
This first novel finds V.I. (or Vic as her friends call her) hired to track down a missing girl. Only when she starts investigating does she realize that she’s been had and that there is a lot more going on here than meets the eye.
This Sarah Paretsky novel is slightly dated at this point, especially with its use of dame and broad. Mind you, it is set in 1979. It is still nice to revisit and see where the series, and a lot of today’s female detective fiction started. And some of the modern urban fantasy comes from too. It would be easy to make an argument that people like Kim Harrison and her character Rachel Morgan owe a lot to V.I. and the other hardboiled female detectives who came out in the early 1980s.
Over all, good read.