Mici Anhalt
Created by Lillian O'Donnell

Not really a P.I., MICI ANHALT's an investigator for the New York City Crime Victim's Compensation Board, but in her three book-length cases, despite her job title, she comes off more like a private eye than some paper-packing social worker. An ex-ballerina and a former worker for Attorney General Robert Kennedy's staff, Mici's full of post-sixties, left-leaning, bleeding heart political sentiment, which often brings her into conflict with the bureaucracy of the Board. A decent series, well-written, with a strong, appealling character, but, given the likes of the more hardboiled female eyes that soon followed, such as Kinsey Millhone or V.I. Warshawski, it seems rather dated and even quaint at times. Still, a satisfying series, for the most part.

Author O'Donnell is probably best-known for creating feisty female police detective, Lieutenant Norah Macaulhay. She returned to the P.I. genre in 1990 with a newer female eye, GWENN RAMADGE, who also makes New York her home.

NOVELS

• Aftershock (1977)
• Falling Star (1979)
• Wicked Designs (1980)

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