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Girl Detectives by [Sterzinger, Ann]
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  • File Size: 916 KB
  • Print Length: 347 pages
  • Publisher: Hopeless Books; 2 edition (April 4, 2013)
  • Publication Date: April 4, 2013
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00C7XF1WA
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,301,469 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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4.0 out of 5 starsFlawed debut
By Matt W. on February 19, 2014
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The problem with reading a novelist’s first book after their later ones is that since most writers improve as they get older, you can’t help but view their earlier work in the context of what they’re putting out now. Flaws in their characterization and prose that have been smoothed over or eliminated in later works jut out like pilonidal cysts. Since first novels typically are more autobiographical than later ones, you have to resist viewing the book as an exercise in self-indulgence. Even if the book is really good—as is the case with talented writers—you’ll always think less of it than if you had read it with virgin eyes.

Girl Detectives is such a book. I’ve heaped praise on Ann Sterzinger’s novels NVSQVAM (Nowhere) and The Talkative Corpse, but Girl Detectives isn’t on the same level as those books. It’s not a bad novel by any means—it’s funny, piercing and shows signs of Sterzinger’s later genius—but compared to her more recent work, it falls short. This shouldn’t stop you from reading it, but don’t expect it to blow your brains out of your skull.

Girl Detectives is half-slapstick mystery novel (think Chandler as adapted by the Coen brothers, with a dash of The Women-style bitterness), half-chronicle of the last days of print journalism. The plot centers around the primarily female employees of Chiculture (loosely based off of the Chicago Reader, where Sterzinger worked as a copyeditor) and how the murder of one of their colleagues changes their world for—haha, just kidding! They’re all a bunch of backstabbing twits.

The characters at Chiculture are depicted with the sort of seething, comic resentment that can only be acquired from years working a s*** job.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsKind of like being there
By Robert Nemtusak on April 9, 2009
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You don't have to work for a newspaper to appreciate this book but it sure helps!
All kidding aside, this Chicago murder mystery had me hanging on every word.
Not so much for the Up With People crowd, but we're talking about people committing murder and selling out their "friends" to save their own necks.
"Girl Detectives" feels true; I practically tasted the beer when murder suspect Pill Dombrowski and her brother were contemplating atoms, the void, and the North Side of Chicago.
Not for the faint of heart, but worth your time.
This is the best "new" book I've read in years.
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