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1) Fire sale
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V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 12
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 12
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
V.I. Warshawski volume novel Brilliance Audio
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 12
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
V.I. Warshawski volume novel Brilliance Audio
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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.
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Consuelo is 16, heavily pregnant and married to an unemployed gangster. The last thing she needs is a negligent doctor. When she is rushed into the Friendship private hospital, the staff are reluctant to treat her. Fortunately she has V.I. Warshawski, family friend and ex-lawyer, with her. But Consuelo and her baby are the tragic victims of a system so corrupt that it pays her husband to keep quiet. Anyone who can discover anything about the unorthodox...
3) Hardball
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V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 13
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 13
V. I. Warshawski msyteries volume 13
V.I. Warshawki novel volume 13
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V.I. Warshawski novel volume 13
V. I. Warshawski msyteries volume 13
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When V. I. Warshawski is asked to find Lamont Gadsden, a man who's been missing for four decades, a search that she figured would be futile turns lethal. Skeletons from Chicago's racially charged history, as well as haunting family secrets rise up with a vengeance. To complicate matters, Petra, a young cousin whom V. I. has never met, arrives from Kansas city to work on a political campaign. It does not take long for the high-spirited Petra to win...
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he vice-president of a Chicago bank hires V.I. Warshawski to find his son. She's pleased. The head of the International Brotherhood of Knifegrinders hires her to find his daughter. She's not so pleased. Who's the boss in this dangerous game of insurance fraud, murder contracts and gunmen?
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Private investigator V.I. Warshawski probes the world of abused women, runaway children and the homeless to find a killer. In the process she uncovers a financial fraud with links to Chicago banks and the university, forcing her to take on the city's establishment. By the author of Guardian Angel.
6) Breakdown
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When the teenage daughters of some of Chicago's most influential families discover the body of a ritually murdered victim, investigator Warshawski explores theories that the killing is linked to a hostile media campaign against a senatorial candidate or a wealthy patriarch's childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania.
7) Hard time
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 23
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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.'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...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A spectacular mystery—complex, fast-paced yet ruminative, and imbued with the grim awareness, shared by all intelligent hard-boiled novels, that the past always catches up with us . . . a thrilling and even moving mystery.”—The Washington Post Book World
V.I.’s journey begins with a national conference in downtown Chicago, where angry protesters are calling...
V.I.’s journey begins with a national conference in downtown Chicago, where angry protesters are calling...
9) Blacklist
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V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 11
Thorndike Press large print basic
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 11
Thorndike Press large print basic
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 11
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Chicago detective V. I. Warshawski investigates the murder of an African-American reporter and walks into a web of sex, politics, corruption, and secrecy spanning fifty years--from the McCarthy era to the Patriot Act--that could ultimately kill her.
10) Dead land
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"Chicago may be the city of broad shoulders, but its political law is "Pay to Play." Money changes hands in the middle of the night, and by morning, buildings and parks are replaced by billion-dollar projects. Chicago PI V.I. Warshawski gets pulled into one of these clandestine deals through her impetuous goddaughter, Bernie Fouchard. Bernie tries to rescue Lydia Zamir, a famed singer-songwriter now living on the streets; Zamir's life fell apart when...
11) Burn marks
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V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 6
V. I. Warshawski mystery volume 06
V.I. Warshawski volume 6
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 06
V. I. Warshawski mystery volume 06
V.I. Warshawski volume 6
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 06
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V.I. Warshawski, a Chicago private eye, investigates the fire at SRO hotel. She looks deep into the construction business and Cook County politics.
12) Fallout
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Savvy investigator Vic leaves her comfort zone in Chicago to investigate the disappearances of a young film student and a faded Hollywood star in Kansas, where a university town, the remnants of the Cold War and long-simmering racial tensions are stirred into violence by mysteries and murders.
13) Brush back
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"For six weeks in high school, V.I. Warshawski thought she was in love with Frank Guzzo. He broke up with her, she went off to college, he started driving trucks. She forgot about him until the day his mother was convicted of bludgeoning his kid sister to death. Stella Guzzo was an angry, uncooperative prisoner. Newly released from prison, she is looking for exoneration, so Frank asks V.I. for help. V.I. doesn't want to get involved. Stella hated...
14) Critical mass
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V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 16
Thorndike Press large print basic
V.I Warshawski novel volume 16
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 16
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Thorndike Press large print basic
V.I Warshawski novel volume 16
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"New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky's brilliant protagonist V.I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes. 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,...
15) Windy City blues
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Collection of short stories featuring gutsy female detective V. I. Warshawski, working her beat in the city of Chicago.
16) Blood shot
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“No one, male or female, writes better P.I. books than Paretsky.”—The Denver Post
V. I. Warshawski isn’t crazy about going back to her old south Chicago neighborhood, but a promise is something she always keeps. Caroline, a childhood friend, has a dying mother and a problem—after twenty-five years she wants V.I. to find the father she never knew. But when V.I. starts probing into the past,...
V. I. Warshawski isn’t crazy about going back to her old south Chicago neighborhood, but a promise is something she always keeps. Caroline, a childhood friend, has a dying mother and a problem—after twenty-five years she wants V.I. to find the father she never knew. But when V.I. starts probing into the past,...
17) Guardian angel
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V.I. uncovers a corporate network of murder and corruption in her neighborhood while her friends abandon her.
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“V.I. Warshawski is one of the best . . . smart, tough, sexy.”—Daily News (New York)
“Sara Paretsky makes excellent use of local backgrounds in a carefully plotted tale of murder and great misdeeds in the world of Great Lakes cargo shipping.”—Chicago Tribune
When Chicago Black Hawks hockey legend Boom Boom Warshawski slips off a wharf and drowns in Lake Michigan, his private-eye...
“Sara Paretsky makes excellent use of local backgrounds in a carefully plotted tale of murder and great misdeeds in the world of Great Lakes cargo shipping.”—Chicago Tribune
When Chicago Black Hawks hockey legend Boom Boom Warshawski slips off a wharf and drowns in Lake Michigan, his private-eye...
19) Body work
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A shooting in Chicago is nothing new, certainly not to V.I., who is hired by a veteran's family to clear his name after his arrest for the murder of a woman connected to the performer known as the Body Artist. As V.I. seeks answers, her investigation will take her from the North Side of Chicago to the far reaches of the Gulf War.
20) Shell game
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When V. I Warshawski gets word that her closest friend and mentor Lotty Herschel's nephew has become a suspect in a murder, the legendary detective will do everything she can to save him. The cops found Felix Herschel's name and phone number on the unknown victim's remains, but Felix insists he doesn't know why. As Vic digs deeper, she discovers that the dead man was obsessed with Middle Eastern archaeology-the first clue in a bewildering case that...
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