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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Dell Publishing Company; Reissue edition (1 Jul 1991)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0440210690
  • ISBN-13: 978-0440210696
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 11 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 948,000 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant start, 14 Feb 2001
By Ms. M. Wilde "vildi26" (SURREY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Indemnity Only (A V. I. Warshawski novel) (Paperback)
When I first read this book - Sara Paretsky's debut thriller, I couldn't believe my luck. A woman private investigator in Chicago. She uncovered a clever fraud in a union's pension funds when she was hired to look for a union bosses daughter & the death of her boy friend. It was unusual to find a P.I. who fought, had a gun - with the action really fast & the dialogue very witty. The first appearance of the brilliant character of V.I.Warshawski - cutting a swathe through a financial swindle on this occasion. Sara Paretsky is a unique novelist, whose subsequent thrillers usually combined detection with campaigning against corruption & inequality. V.I.Warshawski's marvellously angry attempts to bring back honour & ethics to a dirty world are a collectors joy - each novel infinitely re-readable.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Dated but interesting, 8 Nov 2007
By tybalt-quin (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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One of the first female PIs to gain popularity with the reading public, Paretsky's V I Warshawski is very much the late 70s/early 80s image of a tough female character. Hard hitting, tough talking, she takes on a client who wants her to find his missing daughter, only to find herself embroiled in murder, fraud and a complex web of betrayal and counter-betrayal.

When read today some of the dialogue seems stilted and there is some debate in the text about the aims of feminism, but the story itself keeps moving and Warshawski has an engaging voice, which carries the reader along with her, making it easy to see why the series has such enduring popularity.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Dissapointing offering., 5 May 2008
By E. Laws "evangeline2020" (Hull, UK) - See all my reviews
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I found this in the library, surprised to see the first book in the series on the shelf I took it out. I'd intended to get the subsequent books in the series from Amazon but to be honest I'm glad I didn't bother before I'd read the first one.

I was hoping to have found another author in the mould of Sue Grafton, Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs. Unfortunately Sara Paretsky doesn't match up.

The story line doesn't seem to have the pace of Sue Grafton novel and even the details of Vi's personal life seem to be stilted and forced. The background of Union mafia and insurance companies didn't hold the attention and some of the characters weren't completely believable.

All in all, one to miss I'm afraid.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Indemnity Only
This is the first in Sara Paretsky's private detective V.I. Warshawski series. Here we follow VI as she is hired to find a business tycoons missing daughter after the death of her... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars There's only one V.I.
V.I. is tough, imaginative, generous-hearted, loveable and fearless: yet she is entirely believable. Read more
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2.0 out of 5 stars Sparse in every aspect
Sara Paretsky's offering is sparse on everything. Sparse on good writing, sparse on character development and sparse on suspenseful plot. Read more
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