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A review by melissa_who_reads
Body Work by Sara Paretsky
4.0
Listened to this in the car, in traffic. Found it difficult at times; at times, there was no one in the story who I liked. And this one was filled with violence and pain ... which most of these are, but violence felt a little more extreme and uncontrolled.
An Iraq war vet is arrested for committing a murder -- and VI held the woman he is accused of murdering in her arms as she died. But the vet is unconscious, and can't give his side of the story. So his parents hire Vic to figure out what happened -- why Nadia? Who killed her? How does the Body Artist intersect with both of them?
Nadia was murdered outside a club whose main attraction is "The Body Artist" - a woman who sits naked (nearly) and allows others to paint on her - but what is going on at the club and with the Artist? How do they figure in the story?
It's convoluted, leading back to events in Iraq, and filled with both corporate bad men and more overtly criminal bad men ... and there is a definite body count before VI solves this one.
At times I was impatient with the story. After listening to three in a row, I can follow the basic plot structure fairly closely, and sometimes I was reluctant to listen as it was stressful. It took me more than three weeks to listen to the 14 CDs (not listening on digital yet). But I did finally finish it, and the end was worth the wait - and the stories do intertwine in a plausible and believable way.
An Iraq war vet is arrested for committing a murder -- and VI held the woman he is accused of murdering in her arms as she died. But the vet is unconscious, and can't give his side of the story. So his parents hire Vic to figure out what happened -- why Nadia? Who killed her? How does the Body Artist intersect with both of them?
Nadia was murdered outside a club whose main attraction is "The Body Artist" - a woman who sits naked (nearly) and allows others to paint on her - but what is going on at the club and with the Artist? How do they figure in the story?
It's convoluted, leading back to events in Iraq, and filled with both corporate bad men and more overtly criminal bad men ... and there is a definite body count before VI solves this one.
At times I was impatient with the story. After listening to three in a row, I can follow the basic plot structure fairly closely, and sometimes I was reluctant to listen as it was stressful. It took me more than three weeks to listen to the 14 CDs (not listening on digital yet). But I did finally finish it, and the end was worth the wait - and the stories do intertwine in a plausible and believable way.