V. I. Warshawski mysteries
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Meeting an anonymous client late on a sizzling summer night is asking for trouble. But trouble is Chicago private eye V.I. Warshwski's specialty. Her client says he's the prominent banker, John Thayer. Turns out he's not. He says his son's girlfriend, Anita Hill, is missing. Turns out that's not her real name. V.I.'s search turns up someone soon enough -- the real John Thayer's son, and he's dead. Who's V.I.'s client? Why has she been set...
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V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 3
V.I. Warshawski novels volume 03
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V.I. Warshawski novel) volume 3
V.I. Warshawski novels volume 03
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V.I. Warshawski novel) volume 3
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V.I. Warshawski's attempts to help a sour-faced old aunt who has been accused of stealing stock certificates from a pious order of Dominican brothers lands her in trouble with two of Chicago's most powerful institutions--the Church and the Mob.
5) Blood shot
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Returning to her South Side alma mater for a reunion, private detective V.I. Warshawski becomes involved in the search for a former classmate's long-lost father, a quest that uncovers a web of corruption, danger, and murder.
6) Burn marks
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When Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski investigates a fire at a SRO hotel that leaves her aunt homeless, she becomes embroiled in a tangle of political corruption, arson, and murder.
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He came from out of the blue -- a man with an astonishing story of a childhood shattered by the Holocaust, and it's a story that has devastating consequences for V.I. Warshawski's cherished friend, Dr. Lotty Herschel, too. For now, the past that Lotty has struggled to forget has come back to haunt her, flooding her with memories that could destroy her life. And for V.I., who's already working on a case for a poor family cheated out of their life insurance,...
12) Fire sale
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V.I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V.I. takes over coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former high school, she faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms who inevitably draw the detective into their family woes.
13) Hardball
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G. P. Putnams Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
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xi, 446 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Private investigator V. I. Warshawski, having agreed to help find a man who has been missing for forty years, uncovers racially charged secrets from the 1960s, while also tracking down a cousin who went missing while in town to work on a political campaign.
14) Body work
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Penguin Publishing Group
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2011
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English
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The enigmatic performer known as the Body Artist takes the stage at Chicago's Club Gouge and allows her audience to use her naked body as a canvas for their impromptu illustrations. V. I. Warshawski watches as people step forward, some meek, some bold, to make their mark. The evening takes a strange turn when one woman's sketch triggers a violent outburst from a man at a nearby table. Quickly subdued, the man-an Iraqi war vet-leaves the club. Days...
15) Breakdown
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V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 15
V.I. Warshawski novels volume 15
V.I. Warshawski novel) volume 15
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V.I. Warshawski novels volume 15
V.I. Warshawski novel) volume 15
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When tweens in Chicago's Carmilla Club hold an initiation ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpse, a man stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. For V.I. Warshawski, the questions multiply faster than the answers. As V.I. struggles for answers, she finds herself fighting enemies who are all too human.
16) Critical mass
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"New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky's brilliant protagonist V.I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes. V.I. Warshawski's closest friend in Chicago is the Viennese-born doctor Lotty Herschel, who lost most of her family in the Holocaust. Lotty escaped to London in 1939 on the Kindertransport with a childhood playmate,...
17) Brush back
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Reluctantly agreeing to help when an old boyfriend asks her to exonerate his mother for the murder of his sister, V. I. Warshawski is forced to confront ugly politics and violent elements in her hometown.
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[2017]
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English
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V.I. Warshawski's impossible god-daughter Bernie convinces her to look for August, a young film-maker who has disappeared. The evidence indicates that he has gone to Kansas in the company of Emerald, an older black movie actress who wants to film the story of her life. Her search takes V.I. from the military base Emerald was born on, to the farm where she grew up outside a university town, ploughing up past and present-day secrets as she goes. What...
19) Shell game
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"Sara Paretsky follows her instant New York Times bestseller Fallout--her most widely read novel in years--with an extraordinary adventure that pits her acclaimed detective, V.I. Warshawski, against some of today's most powerful figures. Legendary sleuth V.I. Warshawski returns to the Windy City to save an old friend's nephew from a murder arrest. The case involves a stolen artifact that could implicate a shadowy network of international criminals....
20) Dead land
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"Chicago may be the city of broad shoulders, but its political law is "Pay to Play." Money changes hands in the middle of the night, and by morning, buildings and parks are replaced by billion-dollar projects. Chicago PI V.I. Warshawski gets pulled into one of these clandestine deals through her impetuous goddaughter, Bernie Fouchard. Bernie tries to rescue Lydia Zamir, a famed singer-songwriter now living on the streets; Zamir's life fell apart when...
21) Overboard
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2022.
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"Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a nefarious conspiracy preying on Chicago's weak and vulnerable, in this thrilling novel from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky. On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.I. Warshawski is led by her dogs on a mad chase that ends when they discover a badly injured teen hiding in the rocks along Lake Michigan. The girl only regains consciousness long enough to utter one enigmatic word....
22) Pay dirt
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While visiting Angela, one her protégées in Kansas, V.I. Warshawski, when Angela's roommate goes missing and V.I. finds her near death in a drug house, is pitched headlong into the country's opioid crisis and a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War.
23) Windy City Blues
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V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume Related works
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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V.I. Warshawski, “undoubtedly one of the best-written characters in mystery fiction” (The Baltimore Sun), returns in a collection of stories that bring new meaning to “ties that bind.” Decked out in her silk shirts and no-nonsense Attitude, V.I. is out to make a living—by the skin of her teeth.
In “Grace Notes,” V.I. has barely finished her morning coffee when...
In “Grace Notes,” V.I. has barely finished her morning coffee when...