Tato série sleduje osudy soukromé detektivky z rušného Chicaga. Hrdinka se potýká s komplexními případy, které ji zavedou do temných zákoutí města i lidské duše. Příběhy jsou plné napětí, intrik a silné ženské postavy, která se nebojí postavit zlu. Jedná se o klasickou detektivku s moderním nádechem a důrazem na atmosféru.
The vice-president of a Chicago bank hires V.I. Warshawski to find his son. She's pleased. The head of the International Brotherhood of Knifegrinders hires her to find his daughter. She's not so pleased. Who's the boss in this dangerous game of insurance fraud, murder contracts and gunmen?
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Three million dollars in share certificates have been stolen from a Dominican priory, and Vic Warshawski doesn't want to find out why. Aunt Rosa, the priory's treasurer, wants her on the case, but Vic has never forgiven Rosa for something she did a long time ago.
Děj strhujícího detektivního příběhu začíná úmrtím šestnáctileté dívky na porodním sále chicagské nemocnice. V hlavní roli zajímavého příběhu se setkáváme s advokátkou, která odhalí nekalé praktiky v této nemocnici.
Librarian's Note: An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereV.I. Warshawski isn't crazy about going back to her old south Chicago neighborhood, but a promise is something she always keeps. Caroline, a childhood friend, has a dying mother and a problem -- after twenty-five years she wants V.I. to find the father she never knew. But 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 of big business and chemical corruption that may become a toxic shock to a snooper who knows too much.
Someone knocking on the door at 3 A.M. is never good news. For V.I. Warshawski, the bad news arrives in the form of her wacky, unwelcome aunt Elena. The fire that has just burned down a sleazy SRO hotel has brought Elena to V.I.'s doorstep. Uncovering an arsonist -- and the secrets hidden behind Elena's boozy smile -- will send V.I. into the seedy world of Chicago's homeless... into the Windy City's backroom deals and bedroom politics, where new schemers and old cronies team up to get V.I. off the case -- by hook, by crook, or by homicide.
After her golden retriever has puppies, and her yuppie neighbors put them to sleep while dog-sitting, V.I. uncovers a corporate network of murder and corruption
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “ The best of Sara Paretsky’s mystery novels . . . all of [Sara] Warshawski’s feminist and liberal proclivities are in full boil, propelling a complex and action-filled plot.” 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, she’s 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, she’s been implicated in a murder—after the body of Deirdre Messenger, a prominent lawyer’s wife, turns up sprawled across her desk. V.I., who had volunteered with Deirdre at a women’s 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 Chicago’s streets, where secrets are hiding in the dark like a child’s—or V.I.’s—worst nightmare. “Riveting . . . a ripsnorting climax . . . [Warshawski is] street-smart, feisty yet appealingly vulnerable.”—Chicago Sun-Times
This work once again features the determined and passionate sleuth V.I. Warshawski. Here prison life and the entertainment industry merge when Murray Ryerson - a fellow investigator and friend of Warshawski, is assaulted and left for dead.
V.I.'s friend is in terrible danger - from both past crimes and present evil . . . Lotty Herschel is more than just a friend to Vic Warshawski - she is a mentor. A Holocaust survivor, Lotty has built a good life for herself. So when a man with recovered memories of a childhood strikingly similar to her own starts to plague Lotty, V.I. - working on a difficult fraud case - tries to help in the only way she can: by examining his murky past. Struggling to decide who she can trust, V.I. is caught in a mystery that stretches from Switzerland and Germany to Chicago's South Side, and across many decades. As she digs deeper, V.I. moves closer to a shocking truth - a truth that could destroy her oldest friend. And may have fatal consequences for others . . .
Every new Sara Paretsky novel is an event, offering readers the chance to reconnect with her beloved heroine, V. I. Warshawski, described as "a private eye with the sharpest tongue and hardest head in Chicago" (The New York Times Book Review). This installment is particularly compelling, weaving a narrative of secrets and betrayals spanning four generations—political, social, sexual, and financial, all potentially lethal. In the wake of 9/11, V.I. takes on a request from an old client to check an empty family mansion. She unexpectedly encounters an intruder, leading to a chase that results in her falling into a pond. In her frantic grasp for support, she discovers a lifeless hand belonging to a reporter who had been probing events from the McCarthy era. This discovery pulls her into the intertwined histories of two prominent Chicago families, marked by blood, sex, money, and lingering scandals that may involve murder. Concurrently, she becomes entangled in the case of a missing Egyptian boy with potential terrorist ties, making him a target for government interest. As the two cases converge, V.I. finds herself in increasingly dangerous situations, revealing that wealth and privilege come with a heavy toll, and the past is rife with patriotic scoundrels. By the end, at least two lives will be lost, and V.I. may become one of them.
A V. I. Warshawski Novel - International Edition
V. I. Warshawski returns to her old South Chicago neighborhood to coach the girls' basketball team at her former high school, encountering a diverse group of players, including gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms. Among them is young Josie Dorrado, whose mother expresses concerns about sabotage at the flag manufacturing plant where she works. With By-Smart, the largest employer on the South Side, paying even less, Ms. Dorrado fears for her family's future if the plant shuts down. Her worries come to a head when the plant explodes, injuring V. I. and killing the owner. As V. I. investigates, she confronts the Bysen family, owners of By-Smart. The patriarch, William "Buffalo Bill" Bysen, is in his eighties and struggles with his quarrelsome sons, including the frustrated Young Mr. William and his idealistic grandson, "Billy the Kid." When Billy runs away with Josie, V. I. finds herself caught between the needs of both families. As she searches for the teenagers and a ruthless murderer, she risks her own life in the treacherous underbelly of Chicago.
How do you look for someone who vanished four decades ago? And how do you deal with the news that your father might have been a cop on the take? Ask V.I. Warshawski.
Club Gouge: Chicago's edgiest night spot, where a woman calling herself the Body Artist invites the audience to use her naked body as a canvas. The show attracts all kinds of people, from a menacing off-duty cop to Ukrainian mobsters and Iraq war veterans. A tormented young painter comes too, and the designs she creates on the Body Artist drive one of the soldiers into a violent rage. When the painter is shot, the police assume the shell-shocked veteran went off the rails. But his family hires V.I. to clear his name, and the detective uncovers a chain of ugly truths stretching from Iraq to Chicago's South Side.
When the teenage daughters of some of Chicago's most influential families discover the body of a ritually murdered victim, investigator Warshawski explores theories that the killing is linked to a hostile media campaign against a senatorial candidate or a wealthy patriarch's childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania
Chicago’s V. I. Warshawski “is at her stubborn, reckless, compassionate best in this complicated page-turner about selfish secrets passed down through generations” (Booklist). In 1939, Dr. Lotty Herschel, V. I. Warshawki’s closest friend in Chicago, escaped the Holocaust in Vienna with her childhood playmate, Kitty Saginor Binder. Though the two drifted and animosities grew between them over the years, when Kitty’s daughter finds her life in danger, she turns to Lotty for help. In turn, Lotty summons V. I. to take the case. The threats on the daughter’s life at first seem a simple case of bad drug dealings, but V. I. soon discovers that they are just the tip of an iceberg of lies secrets and silence whose origins trace back to the deadly race among America, Germany, Japan, and England to develop the atomic bomb. And while the secrets may be old, the people who continue to guard them will do anything to make sure they stay buried...
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 that’s what she ends up doing when she responds to a plea for help from an old high school flame, 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... A Washington Post Best Mystery of 2015 Includes a Bonus Short Story!
V.I. Warshawski is the perfect heroine . . . What [Paretsky] brings to the classic private-eye novel is something entirely original; a dry crackle of wit and a deep emotional sympathy with her characters The Sunday Times
When V.I. Warshawski gets word that her close friend and mentor Lotty Herschel’s nephew has become a murder suspect, the legendary detective will do everything to save him. The cops found Felix Herschel’s name and phone number on the unknown victim’s remains, but Felix insists he doesn’t know why. Soon Vic discovers that the dead man was obsessed with Middle Eastern archeology—the first clue in a bewildering case.But the trouble multiplies when Vic’s long-lost niece, Reno, goes missing. Reno is harboring a secret that may cost her her life. V.I. can hear the clock ticking on her niece’s safety and is frantic in her efforts to find her. She won’t leave any stone unturned until these very personal cases are cleared—a complex investigation that will entangle the Russian mob, ISIS backers, rogue ICE agents, a nefarious corporation preying on the poor, and a shady network of stock scams and stolen antiquities stretching from Chicago to the East Indies and the Middle East.
The edge-of-seat new crime novel featuring America's toughest and most caring private eye, V.I. Warshawski.
Collection of short stories featuring gutsy female detective V. I. Warshawski, working her beat in the city of Chicago
