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V.I. Warshawski, Sara Paretsky's tough-talking, dog-loving, justice-seeking private investigator has been missing in action since 1994, when she ratted out a big city political scandal on the streets of Chicago in Tunnel Vision. But now our Vic is back for her ninth adventure--a wee bit older, a tad more jaded, and as broke as ever. It all begins when Warshawski weasels an invitation to the hottest event in town, a glitzy party celebrating television's brightest new star, Lacey Dowell, or, as she's better known, the Mad Virgin. Vic's old pal (and one-time fling) Murray Ryerson now works for Global Enterprises, the corporate giant behind the Lacey sensation. On the way back from the party, Vic almost runs over a woman lying in the middle of the road, her Mad Virgin T-shirt soaked in blood from an earlier beating. The victim, Nicola Aguinaldo, dies in hospital, and Vic quickly realizes that a particularly nasty cop, Detective Lemour, intends to frame her for vehicular homicide. Her anger at these absurd charges hits the boiling point when Nicola's body disappears from the morgue before an autopsy can be carried out. Why was this woman, an escapee from the local Coolis prison, so important to Lemour? And why does the whole Mad Virgin phenomenon smell so rotten? "I didn't want to dive into Nicola Aguinaldo's wreck," V.I. grouses, "but it felt as though someone had climbed up behind me on the high board to give me a shove." In her search for answers, Warshawski runs afoul of Global Enterprises magnate Edmund Trant, and Robert Baladine, the head honcho of the nation's biggest security firm. They have enough clout to have V.I. thrown into Coolis for another crime she did not commit. But incarceration gives the resourceful Vic a perfect opportunity to snoop into Nicola's last days there--and uncover a sensational scandal. As she has done throughout the series, Paretsky brilliantly juxtaposes strikingly different environments. Here she contrasts the dilapidated environs of the jail with the exorbitant homes of Chicago's filthy rich. In fact, readers who have anxiously awaited V.I. Warshawski's return will be glad to find that little has changed in her world. Mitch and Peppy the wonder dogs are as endearing as ever, her landlord, Mr. Contreras, is his normal fearless self, and V.I. is victorious. It really is like coming home. --Naomi Gesinger

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V. I.---her fiends call her "Vic" is a very realistically drawn person. She is intelligent, strong, smart, tough--and yet has very human failings....more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Tue Jan 08 15:29:09 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 15:29:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Sep 07 11:06:32 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 11:06:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 08:44:55 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 05:07:04 -0800 2009 7: Hard Time by Sara Paretsky:

'Darling Murray, when I'm in a catfight you see the gashes a jaguar leaves. But it's hard for even a jungle cat to do much against a shark. Are you her partner or her patsy?'

Synopsis: VI Warshawski finds a dead woman in the road and takes on a ...more...]]> 4 0 true false Fri Dec 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 09:34:26 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 06:24:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu Sep 20 11:47:50 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 20 11:51:13 -0700 2007 Sara Paretsky
When V.I. swerves to avoid a body lying in the middle of the road, she never imagines that her search for the reasons behind the vicious beating death of Nicola Aguinaldo will take her from the upper classes of Chicago society to a long stint behind bars at a p...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 12:57:02 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 20 16:41:49 -0700 2008
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