A Woman's Eye

by Sara Paretsky

Book Overview

Crime is common ground for the twenty-one women??writers in this extraordinary collection of??contemporary mystery fiction. The voices here include??professional crime solvers who take you from the mean??streets of V.I. Warshawski's??Chicago in a case of music and murder... to the??California freeway where Kinsey Millhone's beloved VW??skids into a shooting... to the gang-held turf of??Sharon says mum's the word. And then there are??mothers, grandmothers, battered wives, and social??workers -- ordinary women in extraordinary situations??whose voices reveal contemporary life as seen??through a woman's eye. From the opening tale of a girl??down-and-out in London and what she steals from a??corpse... to the final story of a summer vacation??in the Berkshires, complete with romance and??sudden death... this unique collection brings us great??mystery writing that engages both our intellects??and our hearts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 038530000X
• ISBN13: 9780385300001
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 8.5"