Paretsky: Overboard

Overboard by Sara Paretsky

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


It's tricky writing a book - any book - in lockdown with no access to research resources, no way to scout locations and little chance to bounce ideas around friends and colleagues. Paretsky deserves credit for producing a compulsive page turner in the face of such headwinds. And yet, and yet.... I thought she had moved past signalling the villain in flashing lights early in the story, but here we are again. And one of her strengths has always been allowing her characters to develop, to age with the passing of time yet here the process seems to have gone into reverse. The writing is as good as ever but - for me - the structural issues made a curiously unsatisfying whole.



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