Be sure to read the notes after each story - Paretsky reveals that this one was based on her scientist father’s real-life exploits.Įight of the stories feature V.I. It’s soon obvious Elena is extremely overqualified before long, the FBI and a KGB man are running around the campus, and Abigail saves the day in more ways than one. Kiel, her mother’s boss, hires a Czech refugee, Elena Mirova, ostensibly as a dishwasher in the lab. The title character is one of the laboratory mice cared for by 10-year-old Abigail, who has an informal job in a science lab where her mother works as a secretary.Ībigail is more observant than many of the adults around her, and she’s intrigued when Dr. Miss Bianca, set at the University of Kansas during the 1950s, is a miniature Cold War espionage thriller.
from the University of Chicago), and some of these stories wrap in a bit of American history. Paretsky is a historian by training (she has a Ph.D. All of them boast Paretsky’s keenly observed characters, and many of them reflect the concern for issues such as class, racial and sex discrimination that is a hallmark of the Warshawski novels. Some of its 14 tales are new, others previously published.
Paretsky’s latest book, Love & Other Crimes, is a short story collection.
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