She traced the path of a crime here - there’s always more than one in a Paretsky mystery. Specifically, just off Chicago Avenue and Larrabee, where we stood. But eventually turns to the Chicago River. In this case, the story opens on lakefront rocks off Sheridan Road, where Rogers Park meets Evanston. As I cracked “Overboard” last spring I had that moment no doubt many Chicagoans have had since 1982: You read a little Paretsky and think, Oh, I know where that is. I doubt there is a block of greater Chicagoland V.I.
Read them all and you would have a fairly decent understanding of the social upheavals and political machinations of the past four decades in Chicago. They also serve, by now, as a kind of ongoing mirror history of Illinois. Paretsky began publishing V.I.’s adventures 40 years ago, helping to spark a revolution in crime writing that transformed the genre. “Overboard,” her new novel, about yet another conspiracy just beneath the veil of everyday Chicago, is her 21st mystery featuring her beloved private detective V.I. In “Deadlock,” her second novel, a member of the Chicago Blackhawks is murdered on a local shipping dock, a crime that leads to much uglier, far-reaching offenses, and eventually the mansions of the North Shore.
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