![]() ![]() Mystery Guild selection Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates author tour. ![]() resolutely forges her own trail, maintaining the spunk and humor that have earned her a large, devoted following. While everyone else in this complicated, occasionally tedious, plot urges her toward traditional female paths, V.I. is beset by the paternalistic interference of the Chicago police detective who had been her deceased father's best friend. ![]() Gradually tying these events together, V.I. Shes the best private detective in Chicago and she knows it. She talks tough and lives hard, but shes got a soft spot for good causes. The friend's body is found, along with V.I.'s wallet, at a major downtown construction site soon after the detective is bewildered by mysterious warnings not to get involved with the political campaign of a Hispanic woman to whom she has pledged support. 4.17 47 ratings3 reviews Want to read Buy on Amazon Rate this book She packs a Smith & Wesson, but shed just as soon crack a joke as blow away some South Side chiseler. Trouble erupts when her sweet, crafty and alcoholic aunt Elena, burned out of her SRO hotel, appears with a young hooker friend at V.I.'s Northwest Side apartment. contends with ambitious politicians, a construction-business scam, a corrupt cop and the best intentions of her closest family friends. ![]() The sixth adventure of Chicago private eye Victoria Iphenigia Warshawski begins with arson and proceeds to homicide as the intrepid V.I. Burn Marks by Sara Paretsky On sale 31st January 2013 Price: £9. ![]()
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