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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2001
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Summary: Chicago's legendary detective, V. I. Warshawski, knows her city's rotten underbelly better than most, but she's unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2020
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Summary: "Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a nefarious conspiracy preying on Chicago's weak and vulnerable, in this thrilling novel from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky. On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.I. Warshawski is led by her dogs on a mad chase that ends when they discover a badly injured teen hiding in the rocks along Lake Michigan. The girl only regains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: While visiting Angela, one her protégées in Kansas, V.I. Warshawski, when Angela's roommate goes missing and V.I. finds her near death in a drug house, is pitched headlong into the country's opioid crisis and a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: Lotty was a child of nine when she came to England in 1939 as a refugee from Austria. Having lost her entire family to the Nazi terror, she grew up and completed her medical training in London - and there fell in love with a fellow refugee. She ended the affair when she discovered she was pregnant and bore the child in secrecy, giving it up for adoption. Now, that long-held secret may be exposed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: ImPress Mystery 2004
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Summary: V.I. Warshawski isn't crazy about going back to her old neighborhood, but she always keeps a promise. Caroline, a childhood friend, has a dying mother and after twenty-five years she wants V.I. to find the father she never knew. When V.I. starts probing into the past, she not only finds out where all the bodies are buried, she stumbles onto a very new corpse. Now she's stirring up a deadly mix...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
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Summary: Returning to her South Side alma mater for a reunion, private detective V.I. Warshawski becomes involved in the search for a former classmate's long-lost father, a quest that uncovers a web of corruption, danger, and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Publishing Co. 1988
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Summary: No one would accuse V. I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but there are a few she'd be happy to avoid. High on that list is tangling with Chicago political bosses. Yet that's precisely what she ends up doing when she responds to Frank Guzzo's plea for help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2015
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Summary: Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski knows from the start that Consuelo Alvarado's baby is going to be trouble. Consuelo is sixteen, a diabetic, and the daughter of a friend. When she goes into labor too early, even V.I.'s wild drive to get her to the hospital can't save either Consuelo or her child. Soon V.I. is investigating possible malpractice at the emergency room, and falling for a doctor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: America's top private eye is tossed into a dangerous adventure when a seemingly straightforward assignment becomes complicated and deadly. Hired by a man who calls himself John Thayer, V.I.'s assignment is to find Thayer's son Peter's missing girlfriend. But when V.I. finds young Peter's dead body instead, her client disappears. Her efforts to track down her client and learn his true identity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: Before there was Lisbeth Salander, before there was Stephanie Plum, there was V.I. WARSHAWSKI. To her parents, she's Victoria Iphigenia. To her friends, she's Vic. But to clients seeking her talents as a detective, she's V.I. And her new case will lead her from her native Chicago... and into Kansas, on the trail of a vanished film student and a faded Hollywood star. Accompanied by her dog, V.I....
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2005
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Summary: This powerfully suspenseful novel confronts the machinations of a vast and corrupt industry that trades on the victims of Nazi terrorism, the strange and dubious phenomenon of "recovered memory", and a personal story that brings V.I. Warshawski into the long-buried past of her dearest friend and mentor, Dr. Lotty Herschel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2001
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Summary: In a city emerging from its pandemic lockdown, detective V.I. Warshawski must elude Chicago powerbrokers and mobsters as she tries to find a missing girl who is the key witness to a nefarious conspiracy, which makes Warshawski a target as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Legendary sleuth V.I. Warshawski returns to the Windy City to save an old friend's nephew from a murder arrest. The case involves a stolen artifact that could implicate a shadowy network of international criminals. As V.I. investigates, the detective soon finds herself tangling with the Russian mob, ISIS backers, and a shady network of stock scams and stolen art that stretches from Chicago to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: While searching for fifteen-year-old Ramona Titus, who has run away from her foster home, Black homicide cop-turned-PI Cass Raines soon discovers that Ramona is holding secrets dark enough to kill for and if Cass can't find her first, she will have nowhere left to run.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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Summary: For V. I. Warshawski, saving a friend's nephew from a murder arrest turns into a tangle with the Russian mob, ISIS backers, and shady thieves, proving the only one you can trust is yourself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018
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Summary: 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 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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Summary: 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. For V.I. Warshawski, the questions multiply faster than the answers. As V.I. struggles for answers, she finds herself fighting enemies who are all too human.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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Summary: Reluctantly agreeing to help when an old boyfriend asks her to exonerate his mother for the murder of his sister, V. I. Warshawski is forced to confront ugly politics and violent elements in her hometown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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Summary: When Detective V.I. Warshawski begins an investigation of a three million dollar theft from a monastery, acid is thrown in her face, and she suspects she might be taking on the Vatican, the Mafia, and an international conglomerate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet Book 2005