What Fiction are you reading this week, June 16, 2024?

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20. Just started Sara Paretsky's Pay Dirt

in her V.I. Warshawski detective series.

Paretsky is my favorite detective novel author. Her lead character, Detective Warshawski, is a strong, independent, but very human woman who is politically liberal and takes on cases that often involve her in social issues.

The novels are usually set in Chicago, but this one is in Kansas. V.I. is visiting friends whose daughter's roommate turns up missing. According to the dust jacket, V.I.'s search gets the attention of the FBI and the county's opioid distribution ring.

But, as typically with V.I., the case gets more complicated, this time over land use rights with roots in the Civil War era.

All this is made more difficult by the fact that she is out of her usual territory where she has local contacts to turn to in a pinch. She's on her own in Kansas.