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2) Fire sale
Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Coaching the basketball team at her former South Chicago high school, V.I. Warshawski investigates sabotage at the site of the area's largest employer, where an explosion has killed the facility's owner and launched a dangerous family rivalry.
Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
6) Body work
Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 14
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"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,...
8) Shell game
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"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....
9) Dead land
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
10) Overboard
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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....
11) Hardball
Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 13
Publisher
G. P. Putnams Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
12) Fallout
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
15) Breakdown
Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 15
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
16) Burn marks
Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In "Miss Bianca," a young girl becomes involved in espionage when she befriends a mouse in a laboratory that is conducting dark experiments. Ten-year-old V.I. Warshawski appears in "Wildcat," embarking on her very first investigation to save her father. A hardboiled New York detective and elderly British aristocrat team up to reveal a murderer in Chicago during the World's Fair in "Murder at the Century of Progress." In the new title story, "Love...
18) Guardian angel
Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
19) Blood shot
Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
20) Bitter medicine
Author
Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 4
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
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