An extremely high risk, who still writes crime novels in which a murder investigation in the presence to detect generation of an old injustice. This territory has staked out Ross Macdonald some 70 years ago, and then a novel for the novel, spanning nearly three decades, measured, mapped, and fences secured. Anyone who goes so in this “danger zone”, must expect, as an Epigone, to be charged or simply ignored.

Sara Paretsky has ventured with a “Critical mass”, in the USA 2013 appeared and now in a flawless German Translation in the present case, in the middle of the Macdonald-Land. Maybe it’s because the 71-Year-old after 18 novels, the private detective V. I. Warshawski is welcome no matter what the critics say, maybe it’s because the feminist in her first Thriller, “damages,” from 1982, that you (mostly male set) genre rules anyway for pretty cute. Game material at best.

Sara Paretsky

but, the Paretsky reveals in her afterword, because they have not released the history of the Austrian physicist Marietta Blau. Blue made in the thirty years at the Institute for radium research in Vienna, basic research, had to flee because of their Jewish roots from the Nazis to Mexico, and died unknown. The Nobel prize, the Erwin Schrödinger had suggested many times, she never got.

Marietta Blue is in the novel, Martina Saginor, and Paretsky boost your story with an Extra Dose of tragedy. Saginor will be sent in 1943 to the death camp, your Work will be previously stolen.

Paretsky a scatters in the stringent investigator history of the contemporary short highlights from the past and reveals a dramatic Panorama of the tremendous emotional and political power. Reminds you of a particularly dark and like secretive Chapter of American history: the time just before and in the years after the end of the Second world war, as you saw in the United States with communism, a new hd porno threat up and to the hundreds of German scientists and weapons experts are recruited, no matter what atrocities they had just committed in the name of people, the rich and the leaders.

a physicist Marietta Blau (1894-1970)

Warshawski is funny, but not intentionally funny

It all starts fairly commonplace and, most importantly, absolutely today’s. V. I. Warshawski, now in her fifties, meets with Friends to vegan Barbecues, but otherwise, no Iota less stubborn than in the previous novels.

to take care of your current job: the Disappearance of a drug-addicted woman (and mother). A small Favor for a good friend, that’s all, so it seems in the beginning. The trail leads to a drug house a few hours outside of Chicago, and soon, Warshawski finds the first body. Then the next, and a little later, it looks like you would also have to believe it soon.

On the next 500 pages, it is whether the variety of people and varying levels of time sometimes a bit confusing, but never boring. The latter Paretsky is also guaranteed by the fact that she gives her heroine plenty of opportunity to “prove himself in action scenes, she’s still too old for this Shit” – not that Warshawski would use such a trivial macho spell ever, she is smart, but not intentionally funny.

DISPLAY Sara Paretsky:
Critical mass

From the American English by Else Laudan and B. Szelinski

Ariadne in the Argument publishing, 544 pages, 24 Euro

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Among other things, she is fighting corrupt Cops, buried alive, and a shootout in a crack house, as well as several hand-delivers solid clashes with agents of the Homeland Security that do not come with the unlimited Power with which they were equipped, so clear.

But the real charm of the novel consists not in the Action, but to observe, with which the narrative elegance Paretsky their history, very slowly, but it is tremendously stringent unfolds. How you can ñ in notes, sometimes false trails, the reader always takes seriously, and never with rotten Tricks works.

“Critical mass” is also a classic investigators of detective story in which the reader and the reader, a detective and a writer are always at eye level. Paretsky dominates the American narrative principle of the show, don’t tell , and to teach without ever how much running today in the USA, wrong, its causes in the failings of the past. Would Ross Macdonald still alive, he would certainly be proud of Sara Paretsky.