A woman's eye - Sara Paretsky

Crime is common ground for the twenty-one women
writers in this extraordinary collection of
contemporary mystery fiction. The voices here include
professional crime solvers who take you from the mean
streets of V.I. Warshawski's
Chicago in a case of music and murder... to the
California freeway where Kinsey Millhone's beloved VW
skids into a shooting... to the gang-held turf of
Sharon says mum's the word. And then there are
mothers, grandmothers, battered wives, and social
workers -- ordinary women in extraordinary situations
whose voices reveal contemporary life as seen
through a woman's eye. From the opening tale of a girl
down-and-out in London and what she steals from a
corpse... to the final story of a summer vacation
in the Berkshires, complete with romance and
sudden death... this unique collection brings us great
mystery writing that engages both our intellects
and our hearts.