Mystery Guild selection Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates author tour. She received a degree in political science from the University of Kansas and ultimately completed a. resolutely forges her own trail, maintaining the spunk and humor that have earned her a large, devoted following. Author Sara Paretsky was born in Ames, Iowa on June 8, 1947. While everyone else in this complicated, occasionally tedious, plot urges her toward traditional female paths, V.I. is beset by the paternalistic interference of the Chicago police detective who had been her deceased father's best friend. Gradually tying these events together, V.I. The friend's body is found, along with V.I.'s wallet, at a major downtown construction site soon after the detective is bewildered by mysterious warnings not to get involved with the political campaign of a Hispanic woman to whom she has pledged support. has escaped many near-death experiences, including drowning in Chicagos swamps (Blood Shot), falling down an elevator shaft (Burn Marks), and multiple attempts to shoot her down (Dead Land). Trouble erupts when her sweet, crafty and alcoholic aunt Elena, burned out of her SRO hotel, appears with a young hooker friend at V.I.'s Northwest Side apartment. Paretsky and Warshawski share a love of singing, Golden Retrievers and Italian reds. contends with ambitious politicians, a construction-business scam, a corrupt cop and the best intentions of her closest family friends. The sixth adventure of Chicago private eye Victoria Iphenigia Warshawski begins with arson and proceeds to homicide as the intrepid V.I.
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