Sara Paretsky
22) Ghost country
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Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Luisa, a has-been opera singer; Madeleine, a homeless woman; and Mara, the rebellious granddaughter of a wealthy doctor; are drawn together in pursuit of the right to live and worship beneath a Chicago hotel where they reportedly have witnessed the Virgin Mary's blood seeping through a wall.
23) Blood shot
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V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 5
Description
While helping a childhood friend find the father she never knew, V.I. stumbles into a web of corporate deception
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Pub. Date
2020.
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...
25) Total Recall
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
In Paretsky's most mesmerizing novel yet, V.I. Warshawski probes a world of personal crisis, recovered memory, and international fraud with the hallmark grit and moral passion that have made her one of the most admired private investigators in contemporary fiction. distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
26) Indemnity only
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V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 1
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Description
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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Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume Related works
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
Nine stories on PI V.I. Warshawski of Chicago, mostly involving friends and family. In one, at the request of an Italian cousin she searches for sheet music which belonged to her mother, in another a friend asks her aid in recovering a stolen family sculpture.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
No one would accuse V.I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but there are a few she'd be happy to avoid. High on that list is tangling with Chicago political bosses. Yet that's precisely what she ends up doing when she responds to Frank Guzzo's plea for help. For six stormy weeks back in high school, V.I. thought she was in love with Frank. He broke up with her, she went off to college, he started driving trucks for Bagby Haulage. She forgot...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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....
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Pub. Date
c2012
Description
When the teenage daughters of some of Chicago's most influential families discover the body of a ritually murdered victim, investigator Warshawski explores theories that the killing is linked to a hostile media campaign against a senatorial candidate or a wealthy patriarch's childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania.
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Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
An audience-participation performance by a controversial artist is disrupted by a violent outburst culminating in the artist's murder days later, prompting V.I. Warshawski to prove the innocence of an Iraqi war veteran charged with the crime.
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Series
V. I. Warshawski volume 8
Pub. Date
1994
Description
V.I. Warshawski, a private investigator, is up against corrupt politicians, big government, political coverups, and the idle rich when she tries to solve the case of her community activist friend's murder.
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V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
V.I. Warshawski's investigation takes her into the depths of the steamy Sanitary canal and brings her eyeball-to-eyeball with her ex-husband, Dick Yarborough. When her dear friend Lotty Herschel and her own lawyer turn against her, V.I. is left alone to struggle with the most sserious case of her career.
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Pub. Date
1992.
Description
When Chicago Black Hawks hockey legend Boom Boom Warshawski slips off a wharf and drowns in Lake Michigan, cousin V.I. questions the report of accidental death and rumors of suicide. V.I. searches for leads and finds a trail of violence and corruption. It takes her to the center of Chicago's powerful shipping industry. There she ferrets out her cousin's killer, but nearly gets painted out of the picture--permanently!
40) Windy City Blues
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Series
V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume Related works
Pub. Date
2017
Description
It's strictly Friends & Family as V.I. Warshawski, "the detective mystery fans have been waiting for", makes return appearances 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.