Before giving us nine tales featuring her indomitable detective, V.I. Warshawski, Paretsky provides an introduction in which she gives a tour of the industrial south side of Chicago.

V.I. Warshawski is back A good samaritan act lands her in the middle of a mystery that brings her head to head with one of the world's largest providers of private security and exposes the ugliness of Hollywood's dream makers.

'Total Recall' follows V.I. Warshawski on a road that winds back more than 50 years - and into an intricate maze of wartime lies, heartbreaking secrets and harrowing retribution.

When a 91-year-old woman in the wealthy town of New Solway becomes suspicious of goings-on in in her old home, Larchmont Hall, private investigator V.I. Warshawski is called in.

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, Kitty Saginor Binder. When Kitty's daughter finds her life is in danger, she calls Lotty, who, in turn, summons V.I. to help.

The seventeenth V.I. Warshawski thriller from one of America's greatest female crime writers, combining contemporary issues, the fight for justice and fast-paced suspense.

V I Warshawski is out on her own in this new crime novel by the bestselling author who defined the female PI sub-genre.