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Title: Is someone impersonating Sara Paretsky? It seems so.
Review: I obtained this book because of V.J. Warshawski, to whom reference is made on the book jacket. Imagine my disappointment when the first five pages were so totally dull, and the characters so completely deadly that I knew it would be a waste of time to get into the novel any further. Sara Paretsky may not want to be "trapped" in the Warshawski novels, but she does so extremely well in that genre! Ms. Paretsky has made the same mistake Robert Ludlum did when he tried to be funny in his two "Road..." books. This is a writer who definitely needs to stick with what she does so wonderfully.
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