How enjoyable to settle down with a new book by Sara Paretsky. -- Sunday Telegraph With the creation of V.I. Warshawski, Sara Paretsky did more than anyone to change the face of contemporary women's fiction. -- Express on Sunday Warshawski's darkest outing, with no sign that her creator is flagging. Paretsky has written a novel in which a great deal is stripped bare, including Warshawski's innermost anxieties about herself, producing a narrative as gripping as it is emotionally wrenching. -- JOAN SMITH, Sunday Times