Showing results by author "Sara Paretsky" in Genre Fiction

Twenty-five years ago, Stella Guzzo beat her daughter to death and then walked up the street to play bingo at her church. V. I. Warshawski grew up with the Guzzo family. She dated Frank Guzzo when they were teens and knew Stella's murderous rages firsthand. She didn't think about the family again until the day Frank came to her office, wanting V. I. to help his mother with an exoneration claim. The detective wants no part of Stella Guzzo's world, but she doesn't feel able to say no.

The Grelliers and the Schapens: two families who have been farming in the Kaw River Valley for over 150 years, their lives connected through the generations by history and geography. Then Gina Haring, bringing with her the liberal air of the big city, moves into a dilapidated house near both farms. Gina has secrets, her own reasons for being in the Kansas countryside, and they're not necessarily what the people around her imagine.

In diesem atemberaubenden Debüt – dem ersten Fall von Victoria Warshawski – sieht sich die härteste Privatdetektivin der USA mit einem vermeintlich routinemäßigen Vermisstenfall konfrontiert, der sich bald zu einem tödlichen Labyrinth aus Täuschung und Intrigen entwickelt. Victoria wird von einem Mann engagiert, der sich John Thayer nennt, um die verschwundene Freundin seines Sohnes zu finden. Stattdessen entdeckt sie die Leiche des jungen Mannes.

Chicago’s V.I. Warshawski confronts crooked politicians and buried family secrets in this gritty mystery from New York Times bestselling author Sara Paretsky. No one would accuse V.I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but she’d happily avoid tangling with Chicago political bosses. Yet...