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Just in time for summer / poolside reading: for auction is a lot of Sara Paretsky novels, 3 of which feature the well-known V.I. Warshawski. Four (4) books in total, all are used, condition and titles are detailed below.
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Book Details:
Blacklist: Hardcover, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, very good condition, dust jacket shows some minor wear. Synopsis: Tracking an intruder on the grounds of an empty estate, private investigator V. I. Warshawski discovers the body of a journalist in a pond. The crime's motives appear to be rooted in the turbulent days of the McCarthy era, and in two socially prominent Chicago families, who would much rather keep aspects of their past quiet. Naturally, V.I. is prepared to make some noise, although the consequences may prove deadly.This is the 12th mystery in the series.
Fire Sale: Hardcover, excellent condition, dust jacket shows some minor shelf wear. Synopsis: In the 12th V. I. Warshawksi mystery, the private detective returns to her old South Chicago neighborhood, a visit littered with unpleasant memories, plus present-day sabotage, murder, and disappearing teenagers. After her former high-school basketball coach becomes ill with cancer, V. I. agrees to volunteer-coach the girls' team. An attempt to drum up corporate support for the team from local high-school alum Buffalo Bill Bysen, the elderly CEO of the By-Smart big-box discount store, proves a dismal failure; ironically, the Bysen family ends up appealing to V. I. instead when Bysen's great-grandson Billy and one of the basketball team members run off together.
Ghost Country: Hardcover, great condition, dust jacket shows some shelf wear. Synopsis: In the shadowy streets below Chicago's Loop, among the poor and downtrodden, a homeless woman believes that the blood of the Virgin Mary is seeping through a crack in a concrete wall. "Ghost Country" tells what happens in the lives of three people, after a mysterious woman appears at the wall during a thunderstorm. Sara Paretskys genius made Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski a household name. Now the New York Times bestselling author explores an unseen corner of the city she loves. In Ghost Country she has written a parable for the millennium, a powerful, haunting novel of magic and miracles, of four troubled people who meet beneath Chicagos shadowy streets--and of the woman whose mysterious appearance changes all of their lives forever.They come from different worlds and meet at a time of crisis for all of them. Luisa, a drunken diva fallen on hard times, discovers on Chicagos streets a drama greater than any she has experienced onstage. Madeleine, a homeless woman, sees the Virgin Marys blood seeping through a concrete wall beneath a luxury hotel. Mara, a rebellious adolescent cast out by her wealthy grandfather, becomes the catalyst for a war between the haves and have-nots as she searches among societys castoffs for the mother she never knew. As the three women fight for their right to live and worship beneath the hotel, they find an ally in Hector Tammuz, an idealistic young psychiatrist risking his career to treat the homeless regardless of the cost. Tensions in the city are escalating when a mysterious woman appears during a violent storm. Erotic to some, repellent to others, she never speaks; the street people call her Starr. And as she slowly transforms their lives, miracles begin to happen in a city completely unprepared for the outcome. In this extraordinary novel, Sara Paretsky gives voice to the dispossessed, to men and women struggling to bury the ghosts of the past, fighting for their lives in a world hungry for miracles, terrified of change. A magical, unforgettable story of myth and madness, hope and revelation, Ghost Country is Sara Paretsky's most eloquent and ambitious work yet.
Tunnel Vision: Hardcover, good condition, dust jacket shows shelf wear. Synopsis: Life is never boring for one of detective fiction's most endearing characters. Now 40, in a steady relationship and broke, Warshawski agrees to find a community service job for the son of an important client. Along the way, she is led down a path of tormented runaways, abused spouses and financial fraud that stretches to the halls of Congress. National ads/media.
Stubbornness has landed private eye V.I. Warshawski in big trouble at her Chicago office. With her grand old Loop building set to be razed, shes become a hold-out tenant amid frayed wiring and scary, empty corridors. Then she finds a homeless woman with three kids in the basement, and before she can rescue them, they disappear. Worst of all, shes been implicated in a murder--after the body of Deirdre Messenger, a prominent lawyers wife, turns up sprawled across her desk.V.I., who had volunteered with Deirdre at a womens shelter, suspects her death is linked to a case of upper-class domestic abuse so slickly concealed that the police refuse to believe it. Increasingly at odds with the cops, V.I. is blindly plunging ahead after the truth. And her path may lead to corruption at the highest levels.or deep into the abandoned tunnels beneath Chicagos streets, where secrets are hiding in the dark like a childs--or V.I.'s--worst nightmare.
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