Overboard: A V.I. Warshawski Novel

law-enforcement, private-investigators, family, family-dynamics, violence, murder, multicultural, multigenerational, Chicago, crime-fiction, criminal-injustice-system, crooks, triggers, antisemitism, dogs, pets**** As someone who worked alongside good coppers and deputies for years, I found the behaviors of the "self-entitled bad cops" in this story more than disgusting and very hard to read. The same goes for the blanket condemnation of care homes that are chronically understaffed by people who are more than just underpaid and verbally abused for the thankless work that they do. But the mystery and solution are very well done, and I think it's a good thing for fiction to record the timely realities of living through a pandemic. There is a lot of action at a fast pace, plot twists, red herrings, and exposure of bad politics and worse policework. I requested and received a free ebook copy from William Morrow Books via NetGalley.