Critical Mass

by Sara Paretsky

Book Overview

Chicago's V. I. Warshawski "is at her stubborn, reckless, compassionate best in this complicated page-turner about selfish secrets passed down through generations" ( Booklist ). In 1939, Dr. Lotty Herschel, V. I. Warshawki's closest friend in Chicago, escaped the Holocaust in Vienna with her childhood playmate, Kitty Saginor Binder. Though the two drifted and animosities grew between them over the years, when Kitty's daughter finds her life in danger,...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 045146818X
• ISBN13: 9780451468185
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.2" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

The author should be ashamed.

Okay, this was one of the worst books I've read. Our heroine goes to Kansas (where the author was raised) and it's just one incorrect story after another. There are numerous egregious geographical errors. The story focuses on a murder near a missle silo and the stuff Ms. Paretsky talks about concerning the silos is utter nonsense (I've lived near silos so I'm somewhat familiar with them). It's unfortunate that I was required to give one star for this tripe.