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A "Washington Post "Best Mystery of 2015 V.I. Warshawski finds herself in a dangerous web of politics in the latest mystery from the "New York Times "bestselling author of "Critical Mass." No one would accuse V.I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but she d happily avoid tangling with Chicago political bosses. Yet that s what she ends up doing when she responds to a plea for help from an old high school fling, Frank Guzzo. Frank s mother Stella was convicted of killing his kid sister, but now that she s out of prison, she s looking for exoneration. Even though the Warshawskis and Stella never got along, V.I. agrees to make a few inquiries after she sees how hard life has been on Frank and her other childhood friends. Only, that small favor leads her straight into the vipers nest of Illinois politics and soon her main question isn t about Stella s case but whether or not she ll make it out of this investigation alive... Includes a Bonus Short Story! "

Carmilla, Queen of the Night, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls all over the world. When tweens in Chicago's Carmilla Club hold an initiation ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpse, a man stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. The girls include daughters of some of Chicago's most powerful families: The grandfather of one, Chaim Salanter, is one of the world's wealthiest men; the mother of another, Sophy Durango, is the Illinois Democratic candidate for Senate. For V. I. Warshawski, the questions multiply faster than the answers. Is the killing linked to a hostile media campaign against Sophy Durango? Or to Chaim Salanter's childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania? As V.I. struggles for answers, she finds herself fighting enemies who are all too human.

Para la detective privada V.I. Warshawski, Vic, esta nueva aventura comienza durante la conferencia en Chicago, donde manifestantes furiosos están reclamando la devolución de los bienes que les arrebataron en tiempos de la Alemania nazi. De repente, un hombre perturbado se levanta para narrar la historia de su infancia, desgarrada por el Holocausto... Un relato que tendrá consecuencias devastadoras pra Lotty Herschel, la íntima amiga y mentora de Vic. Lotty tenía tan sólo nueve años cuando emigró de Astria a Inglaterra, junto con un grupo de niños rescatados del terror nazi, justo antes de que la guerra comenzara. Ahora, inesperadamente, alguien del ayer ha regresado...

Conduciendo de vuelta a casa tras la fiesta de presentación de Global Entertainment, V. I. Warshawski, investigadora privada, encuentra el cuerpo destrozado de una mujer. Cuando el cadaver desaparece misteriosamente antes de realizar la autopsia y la policía empieza a acusar a nuestra detective de atropello, Warshawski se ve atrapada en una espiral de corrupción, abusos, oscuras conexiones políticas e intereses que terminarán enfrentándola con una de las mayores empresas en materia de seguridad y prisiones.

At the request of her esteemed friend Dr. Lotty Herschel, V.I. Warshawski investigates an insurance scam with dark roots in the Holocaust and connections to some of the world's most venerable and

People imagine private detectives to be tired-looking men in raincoats, but Vic is female. She's tough, beautiful, carries a gun - and goes on asking questions until she gets answers. When her cousin Boom Boom dies in an accident, Vic is naturally upset. She wants to know how and why the accident happened, and she isn't satisfied by the answers she gets. So she goes on asking questions . . . and more people start to die.

The ninth book in Sara Paretsky's popular V.I. Warshawski series has the tough, street-savvy private investigator doing time in a women's maximum security prison for the alleged kidnapping of a security magnate's neglected son. She makes the most of her sentence, investigating the death of an ex-housekeeper-turned-convict, who, last seen in the prison's infirmary, was brutally beaten and mysteriously left to die on the streets of her old neighborhood.