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    Tunnel Vision
    Tunnel Vision
    Tunnel Vision
    Audiobook17 hours

    Tunnel Vision

    Written by Sara Paretsky

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

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    About this audiobook

    Stubbornness has landed private eye V.I. Warshawski in big trouble at her Chicago office. With her grand old Loop building set to be razed, she’s become a hold-out tenant amid frayed wiring and scary, empty corridors. Then she finds a homeless woman with three kids in the basement, and before she can rescue them, they disappear. Worst of all, she’s been implicated in a murder—after the body of Deirdre Messenger, a prominent lawyer’s wife, turns up sprawled across her desk.

    V.I., who had volunteered with Deirdre at a women’s shelter, suspects her death is linked to a case of upper-class domestic abuse so slickly concealed that the police refuse to believe it. Increasingly at odds with the cops, V.I. is blindly plunging ahead after the truth. And her path may lead to corruption at the highest levels or deep into the abandoned tunnels beneath Chicago’s streets, where secrets are hiding in the dark like a child’s—or V.I.’s—worst nightmare.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 5, 2017
    ISBN9781536695236
    Tunnel Vision
    Author

    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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    • 4/5
      V.I. Warshawski is back again, butting heads and making enemies in her latest detective outing. In this novel, V.I. is asked to take on a client's son and find him some community service work, at the same time she is asked to look into the mysterious withdrawal of financial backing for a woman-owned building rehab project. What ensues is pure V.I. -- a bullheaded detective up against the establishment, police authorities, friends, lover, and the world, while she races to find the bad guys and save the day.(Read March 2006)
    • 4/5
      Reminiscent of Kinsey Milhone in Sue Grafton's alphabet series, V.I (Vic) Warshawski, private detective let's her enthusiasm for a cause get her into hot water. This is the first of these books I have read, but I suspect it follows the previous pattern. It's a good read, not a great one, but does give the reader a sense of adventure on the one hand, and frustration on the other, as Vic continually ignores advice from her boyfriend (a cop), licensed social workers, attorneys and journalists to do her own thing.In the end, the missing are rescued, the bad guys end up in jail, and the murders get solved....those aren't spoilers, they're the general theme of all such cookie cutter mysteries with "wonder woman" leading ladies.
    • 4/5
      Vic Warshawski is a private investigator whose office building is being closed and whose bank account is feeling a bit slim. She finds a homeless mother and her children living in the basement of her office building and tries, but fails, to help them. She also gets involved an investigation into why her friends’ contracting company has lost funding. Another friend is found murdered in her office. Somehow this is all connected and Vic has to sort it all out. With the cops (including her boyfriend) not trusting her judgment on this case, she definitely has a struggle ahead of her. While this is the 8th book in the V.I. Warshawski series, I had no trouble at all getting into the story and characters. It’s a long and complicated mystery here, and I truly enjoyed it. Vic is a great character and while she has her flaws, she is definitely an awesome lady. I will gladly read more in this series, to get to know her better.
    • 2/5
      I didn't enjoy this book as much as earlier books about this character. The question in my mind that kept coming up was "is this the last we're going to read about VI, or is the author just feeling tired out by her?
    • 2/5
      Okay, the abridged version of this book is not the way to go. Stopped at about the halfway point (about side 3.5 of 8) after a law enforcement officer brought the parent of a missing child along for the arrest of the kidnapping suspect at the suspect's home.

      I can't figure how that would have been any more acceptable or required less of a suspension of disbelief in the full-length version.
    • 4/5
      I found this to be one of the strongest books in the series. Warshawski always seem to push too hard, but here it is quite compelling. Especially in a #MeToo world, it is important to remember that these stories have been going on forever. Further, we are becoming more and more aware that power operates in its own sphere and looks down on the rest of us. In the end, despite the continued believability problems with Vic, this was really enjoyable.
    • 3/5
      V.I. Warshawski's funds are getting low and she accepts the case of a women's construction group whose contract was turned down by a bank that had a neighborhood lending policy.Vic's office building is scheduled for demolition and she finds a woman and the woman's three children living in the basement. One of the woman's children is sickly. A parallel story shows Vic invited to a retirement dinner at a wealthy couple's home and witnessing the mistreatment of the family's children by both the wife and the influential husband.I enjoyed the story and the manner in which the author talks about important topics such as irregularities in the construction business, abused women and troubled children from wealthy and impoverished families. With these topics, the author does a nice job of balancing them within the story so the reader is able to follow a complex plot easily.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed this book quite a bit. Another book with under-street tunnels in the city.
    • 4/5
      V.I. Warshawsky and a homeless family and crooked contractors.
    • 3/5
      The police suspect a 14-year-old girl of murdering her mother, but V.I. knows that the mother stumbled into something much bigger.
    • 4/5
      My second V.I. Warshawski novel, the first too long ago to recall. This is well-written and plotted, with some very well observed social occasions where powerful men hold the floor and the women have as much impact on proceedings as a candlestick, as the author puts it at one point. The locations in Chicago seem authentic, although I don't know the city and the characters generally well-rounded and believable. Recommended.
    • 4/5
      Lots of characters and red herrings with a complicated plot. Not particularly fast moving, but still a satisfying crime story.
    • 3/5
      I listened to this as an audiobook I checked out from the local library. I got to disc 5 (of 14) and my checkout time was up and I couldn't renew. Then it was a month or so before it made its way back to me again through the library system. By about disc 9 or so I was fighting to not fall asleep while listening to it. I'm definitely not sure I got all the nuances of the plot.I've mentioned in reviews of previous books in this series that I felt the plots got a bit convoluted--I'd think the book should be done and there'd still be several more chapters of "wrap up" of some other side plots.
    • 5/5
      Aric Davis tells the story of "Tunnel Vision" through several disparate points of view, each of which begin with their own narrow focus. Two of the characters narrate from a gritty, street crime, urban wasteland world. The third and actually the main focus of the story are two teenage girls -- Betty and June-- who, in between texting each other and talking about boys, decide to solve a mystery -- whether the man in prison for murdering one of the girl's aunts is the right one. Their stories all intersect in a well-written tale that works although it is difficult to know how to characterize it. Is it a gritty urban crime story or a teenage modern day Nancy Drew tale? Or is a bit of both? Whatever it is, it is a compelling read.

      Nickel is the most interesting character, having busted out of juvie hall with a bloody apocalypse behind him. The book opens with Nickel saying how he has never been so angry in his life. He's "traveling south on a bus, with a trail of blood smeared behind me, bodies in my wake, and flashes of violence whenever I close my eyes." "Rage is why I'm alive and it's carrying me south just as this bus does," he explains. He has some advice for you: "Watch your six, stay worried, and get ready to run. That's how you stay safe. Leave the pistol work for the cowboys and the boys in blue."
      Mandy's diary entries are another gritty voice -- that of a junkie whore who descended into the depths of the urban gutter, doing whatever it took to feed her habit and that of her boyfriend's habit too. Her boyfriend was Duke and he has spent fifteen years in prison for brutally murdering her. Mandy says that heroin is the perfect high.

      Betty and June's foray into the world of Mandy's death is surprising, considering what typical teenage girls they are, modern ones, one with divorced parents and one with two moms. Betty is grounded and is caught sexting a boy.

      You wouldn't think all these disconnected elements would work, but they do and this is a story worth reading although I really don't know how to tag it.
    • 3/5
      ☊ The audio presentation gets 4 stars; two of the 3 readers are 5 star readers, but one of the main readers was not very good, perhaps 2.5, which brought this way, way down for me. The story had a rough start, although it did improve, but was no more than 3 stars overall.

      Nickel is back in this novel, which takes place several years after Nickel Plated, but the story is told from three points of view, and works well for this book. Nickel has just escaped from a youth detention centre and is trying to re-establish himself as his money is low, we hear from Mandy Reasoner via flashback entries in her diary, although she was murdered a number of years before this book begins, and we hear a third person POV for Betty. It was the reader of Betty's POV that was annoying, the one who read for Mandy was excellent, and the one for Nickel as good as the first book.

      Betty and June are juniors in high school who are dealing with some relatively typical high school things when the learn some surprising and jarring information. They end up teaming up with none other than Nickel (no surprise as this must be a series) in order to investigate the murder of Mandy Reasoner as part of a school project during a time when a group of people are trying to have the conviction of the alleged murderer, someone called Duke, overturned.

      You could just read or listen to this book cold, but it's better if you read Nickel Plated first in order to really get to know Nickel, since you spend more time getting to know Betty and June here. Not the most believable premise at times, but I still liked it.
    • 3/5
      I was not impressed by the first chapter or so of this book, to the extent that I almost gave up on it, but I'm glad I kept going. I hadn't realized this was a YA book, nor that it had a precursor volume, both of which confused me at first. However, a couple of chapters in, I got involved with the story. The writing is OK, nothing special, but because it is a YA, I give it some slack on that point. The plot is well done and the writing is just good enough to support it. Downside, the young characters had a bit of the Mary Sue about them, especially the male protagonist. It just seemed impossible that a teen had acquired all the skills the character was supposed to have. Perhaps the first volume gives a convincing backstory for him. In this volume, he is engaging enough, but not completely believable. All and all, a decent read, sometimes even a page-turner.
    • 3/5
      This was free (a Kindle First), and I'm always surprised by how much I enjoy these. This one was the weakest of the few I've read that were offered this way, but it was still a pretty entertaining read.Nickel is an interesting character. We learn that he may be a murderer, a drug dealer, and an escaped convict, but (for some reason, probably in previous books I didn't read) he's also a PI, and he gets tied up in a decade-old murder investigation that teenager Betty digs up. The victim is the aunt of her best friend.Because Nickel was such a loose cannon, the best part of the novel was seeing what he was going to do next. He needed to get a couple dozen bales of pot off his property. He needs money. He needs to save a little kid. He needs to make fake IDs. He needs to explore a derelict house. He needs to stay out of the public eye. He definitely was an interesting character.As was the murder investigation itself. I loved watching how Betty and her friend worked on the cold case. And I even enjoyed the alternating POV between Betty and Nickel, and switching characters like that usually drives me crazy.What I didn't like was that Nickel was a teenager that apparently can do anything. That really didn't make sense to me. I think it would have been easier to swallow if he was 25. But a 17-year-old that is a PI, that gets hired by adults to watch out for their daughters? That has equipment to make IDs good enough to pass inspection at a prison? Nope. He was too young, and too perfect.I also didn't like the ending. It was, admittedly, realistic. But I was still kind of bummed.I don't think I'll continue the series (I believe there's at least 1-2 more), but it was still a decent read.