V.I. Warshawski isn't crazy about going back toher old south Chicago neighborhood, but a promiseis something she always keeps. Caroline, achildhood friend, has a dying mother and a problem --after twenty-five years she wants V.I. to find thefather she never knew. But when V.I. startsprobing into the past, she not only finds out where allthe bodies are buried -- she stumbles onto a verynew corpse. Now she's stirring up a deadly mix ofbig business and chemical corruption that maybecome a toxic shock to a snooper who knows toomuch."
V.I. Warshawski isn't crazy about going back toher old south Chicago neighborhood, but a promiseis something she always keeps. Caroline, achildhood fr...
Meeting an anonymous client late on a sizzlingsummer night is asking for trouble. But trouble isChicago private eye V.I. Warshwski's specialty.Her client says he's the prominent banker, JohnThayer. Turns out he's not. He says his son'sgirlfriend, Anita Hill, is missing. Turns out that'snot her real name. V.I.'s search turns up someonesoon enough -- the real John Thayer's son, andhe's dead. Who's V.I.'s client? Why has she beenset up and sent out on a wild-goose chase? By thetime she's got it figured, things are hotter --and deadlier -- than Chicago in July. V.I.'s in adesperate race against...
Meeting an anonymous client late on a sizzlingsummer night is asking for trouble. But trouble isChicago private eye V.I. Warshwski's specialty.Her cli...
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
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 acciden...
Stubbornness has landed private eye V.I. Warshawski in big trouble at her Chicago office. With her grand old Loop building set to be razed, she's become a hold-out tenant amid frayed wiring and scary, empty corridors. Then she finds a homeless woman with three kids in the basement, and before she can rescue them, they disappear. Worst of all, she's been implicated in a murder--after the body of Deirdre Messenger, a prominent lawyer's wife, turns up sprawled across her desk. V.I., who had volunteered with Deirdre at a women's shelter, suspects her death is linked to a case of upper-class...
Stubbornness has landed private eye V.I. Warshawski in big trouble at her Chicago office. With her grand old Loop building set to be razed, she's beco...
V. I. Warshawski explores secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations in this New York Times bestselling novel from one of the most compelling writers in American crime fiction... "A thoughtful, high-tension mystery."--The Washington Post Book World "A genuinely exciting and disturbing thriller."--Chicago Tribune As a favor to her most important client, V. I. agrees to check up on an empty mansion. But instead of a mysterious intruder she discovers a dead man in the ornamental pond--a reporter for an African-American publication...
V. I. Warshawski explores secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations in this New York Times bestselling novel from one of th...
