Critical Mass
Written by Sara Paretsky
Narrated by Susan Ericksen
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
The brilliant V. I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes.
"Both Paretsky and the sharp-tongued justice-seeker, V. I. Warshawski, remain formidable.... V. I. reigns as crime fiction's spiky, headstrong warrior woman of conscience, and Paretsky, classy champion of the powerless, has never been more imaginative, rueful, transfixing, and righteous." -Booklist (starred review)
V. I. Warshawski's closest friend in Chicago is the Viennese-born doctor Lotty Herschel, who lost most of her family in the Holocaust. Lotty escaped to London in 1939 on the Kindertransport with a childhood playmate, Kitty Saginor Binder. When Kitty's daughter finds her life is in danger, she calls Lotty, who in turn summons V. I. to help. The daughter's troubles turn out to be just the tip of an iceberg of lies, secrets, and silence, whose origins go back to the mad competition among America, Germany, Japan, and England to develop the first atomic bomb. The secrets are old, but the people who continue to guard them today will not let go without a fight.
Sara Paretsky
Hailed by the Washington Post as “the definition of perfection in the genre,” Sara Paretsky is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels, including the renowned V.I. Warshawski series. She is one of only four living writers to have received both the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain. She lives in Chicago.
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Reviews for Critical Mass
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Love of the V.I Warshawski books. I'm listening to them in order, and I love that Scribd has them all. I will be sad once I'm done with them but I will find another book from Sara Paretsky.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The best of the McGarvey books so far, but still not in that "elite" category for me. This time, the biggest problem (which plagues way too many thrillers) is the coincidence that is essential to tying the two parts of the story together. On the other hand, I enjoyed the less-than-perfect villain and the introduction of McGarvey's daughter into what will, I presume, be a recurring role in the books. I also particularly enjoy that Hagberg doesn't forget about prior episodes in McGarvey's life and how those episodes continue to weigh upon him or effect his actions and views.