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A V.I. Warshawski Novel

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Publisher Description

A strange crime gets V.I. Warshawski involved with some of Chicago’s most rich and powerful players in this thriller from New York Times bestselling author Sara Paretsky.

When a group of Chicago tweens holds a ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpse—stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. V.I. Warshawski arrives on the scene to escort the girls home–but protecting them places her at the tangled center of the investigation. And the girls include daughters of some of Chicago’s most powerful families: the grandfather of one, Chaim Salanter, is among the world’s wealthiest men; the mother of another, Sophy Durango, is running for the United States Senate.

For V.I., the questions multiply faster than the answers. Is the killing linked to a hostile media campaign against Durango—or to Salanter’s childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania? As V.I. struggles to find an answer, she finds herself fighting enemies who are no less terrifying for being all too human.

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2012
January 3
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
448
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
1.6
MB

Customer Reviews

Dakota carol ,

Best Paretsky plot so far

There were several families who were involved in supposedly unrelated events. The plot thickens. The only reason I gave it a four was that the it was difficult to remember the relationships of the characters. When reading this book, it might be a good idea to jot down the characters as they appear.

XIowaNewsGuy ,

Hang in there

This is a slow starter with weird disparate elements, but gradually picks up steam to become a wildly interesting, if hugely improbable, page turner.

jtreads ,

Too unbelievable

Sorry, I like this series, but this is ridiculous. I sympathize with her politics, but the thinly veiled “ bad guys “ in this were beyond belief. And the whole vampire part of the story just silly and unnecessary. I kept reading, but kept wondering why I bothered. You could tell the villain from the very beginning; the baroque twists that got you to the end were just….baroque. Straining credibility is putting it mildly!

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