This is the first full length novel featuring V.I. Warshawski I've tried reading, and I did not enjoy the experience. I lasted until page 38, at which point I decided that the police harassment of the protagonist, the multiple reflections on how expensive and awful things were, and the general nastiness of the majority of the characters was too much. It was heading into farce with murder, and I'm really not that motivated to read something that just repeats how awful men are to women, and how messed up the American medical and police systems look, particularly when caricatured, as they are here.

[This book was given to me by a friend downsizing their library; I won't be keeping it, as there are too many books I enjoy reading for more than 'so how does the writer get there from here' type questions. ]