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Paretsky, Sara
Bitter Medicine
Mass Market Paperback; Good
Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski knows from the start that Consuelo Alvarado's baby is trouble. Consuelo is sixteen. Diabetic. And the daughter of a friend. W hen she goes into labor too early, even V.I.'s wild drive to get her to the hospital can't save either Consuelo or her child. Soon V.I. is investigating possible malpractice at the emergency room -- and falling for a doctor who works there. Mixing business and love is always bad medicine, but V.I. finds herself listening to her heart, not her head. And when a brutal murder and the violent destruction of a women's clinic put her at the center of a very dirty conspiracy, justice may be the only remedy for a hurt that cuts deep... and chills right to the bone....
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Paretsky, Sara
Blacklist
Mass Market Paperback; Good
This is a story of secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations -- secrets political, social, sexual, financial: all of them with the power to kill. Eager for something physical to do in the spirit-exhausting wake of 9/11, V.I. accepts a request from an old client to check up on an empty family mansion; sub-sequently surprises an intruder in the dark; and, giving chase, topples into a pond. Grasping for something to hold on to, her fingers close around a lifeless human hand. It is the body of a reporter who had been investigating events of forty-five years earlier, during the McCarthy era, and V.I.'s discovery quickly sucks her into the history of two great Chicago families -- their fortunes intertwined by blood, sex, money, and the scandals that may or may not have resulted in murder all these years later. At the same time, she inadvertently becomes involved in the story of a missing Egyptian boy whose possible terrorist connections make him very much sought after by the government. As the two cases drive her forward -- and then shockingly tumble together -- she finds that wealth and privilege, too, bear a terrible price; and the past has no monopoly on patriotic scoundrels. Before everything is over, at least two more people will lie dead... and V.I. might even be one of them.
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Paretsky, Sara
Blood Shot
Mass Market Paperback; Good
Private investigator V.I. Warshawski goes back to her old neighborhood and to the past she cannot escape.It begins innocently enough when V.I. attends the reunion of her championship basketball team and Caroline, a childhood friend who organized the event, asks V.I. a professional favor: "Find my father for me."Caroline's mother is dying, and Caroline wants to meet the father she has never known. The search for him not only calls up memories of V.I.'s own childhood but quickly mushrooms into something darker. After V.I. starts to probe, the body of another old friend turns up in the appropriately named Dead Stick Pond.Who would want Nancy Cleghorn dead? The list of suspects includes everyone from a powerful alderman to the chairman of a great chemical conglomerate. And what is the connection between Nancy's death and the search for Caroline's father?Moving across Chicago from its decaying industrial districts to its posh Gold Coast, V.I. uncovers a network of corruption. The deeper V.I. digs, the murkier things get, until she finds herself at the mercy of malevolent forces completely beyond her control.
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Paretsky, Sara
Fire Sale
Paperback; Good
V.I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V.I. takes over coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former high school, she faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms who inevitably draw the detective into their family woes.Through young Josie Dorrado, V.I. meets the girl's mother, who voices her worries about sabotage in the little flag manufacturing plant where she works. The biggest employer on the South Side, discount-store behemoth By-Smart, pays even less, and Ms. Dorrado doesn't know how she'll support her four children if the flag plant shuts down.The elder Dorrado's fears are realized when the plant explodes; V.I. is injured and the owner is killed. As V.I. begins to investigate, she finds herself onfronting the Bysen family, who own the By-Smart company. Founder William "Buffalo Bill" Bysen, now in his eighties, has four sons who quarrel with each other and with him; the oldest, "Young Mr. William," is close to sixty and furious that his father doesn't cede more power to him. And then there's "Billy the Kid," Young Mr. William's nineteen-year-old son, whose Christian idealism puts him on a collision course with his father, his grandfather, and the company as a whole.When Billy runs away with Josie Dorrado, V.I. is squeezed between the needs of two very different families. As she tries to find the errant teenagers, and to track down a particularly cruel murderer, her own life is almost forfeit in the swamps that lie under the city of Chicago.; V.I. Warshawski Novels
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Paretsky, Sara
Guardian Angel
Mass Market Paperback; Good
Racine Avenue is going upscale -- bad news for hand-to-mouth residents like V. I. Warshawski. As tax bills skyrocket, newcomers pressure old inhabitants into fixing up their homes or moving out. To the yuppies on the block the worst eyesore belongs to old Hattie Frizell, whose yard is returning to native prairie, complete with hubcaps. Their block club wants her and her five dogs gone. V. I. And Hattie have a relationship of sorts: one of those five dogs gave V. I. 's dog Peppy an unwelcome litter. When Hattie slips in her bath and is rushed unconscious to the hospital, V. I. Feels compelled to get involved. But neighboring lawyer Todd Pichea and his wife, Chrissie, act swiftly to get the courts to make them Hattie's legal guardians. V. I. Returns from a business trip to find they've put the old woman's dogs to sleep. Furious, V. I. Starts poking around in the Picheas' affairs, hoping to turn up something scandalous enough to make them lose their guardianship. Hattie isn't the detective's only worry. When her downstairs neighbor's oldest friend disappears, Mr. Contreras persuades V. I. To investigate. As she probes both problems, V. I. Uncovers a scandal linking one of Chicago's oldest industrial families to union fraud and a politically connected bank. Her 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 serious case of her career.
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Paretsky, Sara
Hard Time
Mass Market Paperback; Good
Multimedia conglomerate Global Entertainment has purchased the Chicago Herald-Star, forcing the paper's staff to scramble to stay employed. Reporter Murray Ryerson, V.I. Warshawski's longtime friend and sometime rival, manages to reinvent himself as the host of a television show on Global's network. On her way home from a party celebrating Murray's debut, V.I. almost runs over a woman lying in the street. Stopping to help, V.I. soon learns that her Good Samaritan act will drop her squarely in a boiling intrigue. In a case that forces her to go head-to-head with one of the world's largest providers of private security and prison services, a case that exposes dark hidden truths behind the razzle-dazzle of the entertainment industry, V.I. will be ahead of the game if she gets out alive.
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Paretsky, Sara
Indemnity Only
Paperback; Good
You don't have to be a man to catch this killer. Just a damn good private eye...EQUAL OPPORTUNITY MURDER ...Start with a missing, co-ed sought by a mysterious client who won't reveal his true identity. Mix in a dead boyfriend whose body you're unlucky enough to find. Then for good measure throw in the local cops who simply want you out of the way. Combine the explosively revealing records of a major insurance company and the murderous goons of the city's most powerful union who've nailed you for a target. It all adds up to a killer of a case for Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski, karate black belt law school graduate, and every inch a woman. ; V.I. Warshawski Novels
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Paretsky, Sara
Killing Orders
Paperback; Good
It starts when her great-aunt Rosa summons the detective to her cold suburban home. Rosa made V.I. Warshawski's childhood miserable and the detective resents the command to help her aunt prove she didn't embezzle five million dollars from a local Dominican priory.All hell breaks loose when a mysterious opponent tries to take Vic off the case by throwing acid in her eyes and burning down her apartment. And when a friend who's involved in the case is brutally murdered, it begins to look as if Vic hasn't got a prayer.But Warshawski continues to follow every lead, even when they point to some pretty unorthodox conclusions: Perhaps the Dominicans are covering up a financial scandal. Maybe the whole conspiracy is under the patronage of an international conglomerate, or of Don Pasquale, king of the Chicago mob. Worst of all, someone who's close to Vic could be involved -- her darkly handsome English lover, Roger Ferrant, or even Aunt Rosa herself.
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Paretsky, Sara
Windy City Blues
Paperback; Good
Decked out in her silk shirts and no-nonsense attitude, V. I. Has barely finished her morning coffee when she sees an ad in the paper asking for information about her own mother, long dead. Enter her newfound Italian cousin Vico, with a score to settle--in blood. So much for family ties. But when V. I. 's friend Dr. Lotty Herschel is suspected of killing her professional rival and stealing his priceless statue, V. I. Cuts to the art of the case-and it's not a pretty picture at all! Then a high school classmate summons V. I. To a race at the Old Swimming Hole--only to leave her swimming with the sharks. By now V . I. Could use a relaxing facial. Instead, she gets the business when her pal Sal's beautician-sister transforms a client into a stiff..
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Paretsky, Sara; Barbara Michaels & Various Authors
Women on the Edge
Paperback; Good
14 Classic Tales of Mystery and Heart-Pounding SuspenseTOUGH. TENDER. TERRIFIED.THEY ARE ALL... WOMEN ON THE EDGEWomen are the stars in these fourteen haunting tales of murder, mayhem, and hair-raising suspense by today's leading masters of mystery.In Sara Paretsky's "THE CASE OF THE PIETRO ANDROMACHE," V.I. Warshawski investigates a bizarre killing on the corruption-ridden streets of Chicago. In Howard Browne's "HOUSE CALL," a suburban mother feels a noose of danger tightening around her when she tangles with a hit man. Murder is by the book in Richard T. Chizmar's "A CRIME OF PASSION" when a beautiful woman's obsession with a bestselling crime novelist takes them both over the edge.So whether it's illicit love, sweet revenge, or deadly infatuation, this classic anthology of crime and punishment will take you to the brink of terror.
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